John C. Hawkes Quotes
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.
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Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
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What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
