It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
- John C. Hawkes
Tell, Shift, May, Airplane
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
- John C. Hawkes
Week, Year, Before, Ireland
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
- John C. Hawkes
Mother, Remember, I Remember, Sting
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
- John C. Hawkes
My Life, Go, Had, Hearing
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
- John C. Hawkes
Young People, Very, Took, Twig
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
- John C. Hawkes
Dream, Center, Lime, Twig
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
- John C. Hawkes
Like, Enormous, Anywhere, Frightening
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
- John C. Hawkes
Town, Isolated, About, Alaska
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
- John C. Hawkes
Like, Rained, Almost, Alaska
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
- John C. Hawkes
More, Fiction, Prose, Not Interested
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
- John C. Hawkes
Normal, Typical, Somehow, Separated
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
- John C. Hawkes
Mother, Play, Most, Tennis
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
- John C. Hawkes
The Only Thing, Torment, Exists
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
- John C. Hawkes
Some, Very, Which, Conceiving
I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
- John C. Hawkes
Me, About, German, Poems
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
- John C. Hawkes
Feel, Sense, Any, Exile
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
- John C. Hawkes
Writing, How, Fiction, Immediately
On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
- John C. Hawkes
World, Before, Were, Anxiety
I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
- John C. Hawkes
Kind, How, Would, Prepared
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
- John C. Hawkes
Doubt, Ever, Then, Fearsome
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