John Hawkes American Quotations

My education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape.

He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.

In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old.

Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.

Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married.

As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.

The earliest memory in Connecticut that I can think of has to do with a riding stable that abutted against the property of my grandfather.