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Harry Mathews

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I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.


— Harry Mathews


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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.


— Harry Mathews


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It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.


— Harry Mathews


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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.


— Harry Mathews


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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.


— Harry Mathews


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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.


— Harry Mathews


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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.


— Harry Mathews


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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.


— Harry Mathews


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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.


— Harry Mathews


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Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.


— Harry Mathews


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I. (poetry). ISBN 978-0-9843312-3-9 (poems)


Collaborations
S: Semaines de Suzanne (1997) with Jean Echenoz Mark Polizzotti Florence Delay Olivier Rolin Sonja Greenlee & Patrick Deville
Oulipo Compendium (1998) as editor with Alastair Brotchie.

Harry Mathews (born February 14 1930) is an American author of various novels volumes of poetry and short fiction and essays.

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