Quotes By John C. Hawkes
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
John C. Hawkes
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
John C. Hawkes
On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
John C. Hawkes
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
John C. Hawkes
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
John C. Hawkes
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
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
John C. Hawkes
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
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
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
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