#i

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

#back #convinced #female #forth #hard

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

#before #died #father #homestead #i

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 #much #piano #play #she

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #came #down #married #me

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#almost #day #days #every #every day

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#language #magnificence #only #the only thing #thing

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#enormous #fish #frightening #just #like

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. ↗

— John Hawkes

#amazing #amazing people #attracted #change #character

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people. ↗

— John Hawkes

#get #i #life #nice #other