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Harry Mathews Quotes
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. - Harry Mathews Quotes
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt. - Harry Mathews Quotes
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. - Harry Mathews Quotes
As for characters, I think that very little is needed. You just give a hint and the reader will make up the character on his or her own. - Harry Mathews Quotes
But I soon learned that this was an absolute dead-end street: I would always be an American. And once I realized this, life became a joy. - Harry Mathews Quotes
But what I love most is storytelling. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because Im good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I love teaching. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I think situations are more important than plot and character. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. - Harry Mathews Quotes
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. - Harry Mathews Quotes
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 Quotes
I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didnt leave Harvard early; I actually finished. - Harry Mathews Quotes
Id been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. - Harry Mathews Quotes
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 readers opportunities to follow it at every step. - Harry Mathews Quotes
It wasnt anything he said; it was his whole attitude towards literature that made me realize that I could do absolutely anything I wanted to. - Harry Mathews Quotes
Its true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. - Harry Mathews Quotes
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. - Harry Mathews Quotes
My Life in CIA is the first time that Ive ever written a story in my own name. - Harry Mathews Quotes
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. - Harry Mathews Quotes
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 Quotes
My mother could never understand why I didnt write a thriller, which Ive finally done. - Harry Mathews Quotes
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. - Harry Mathews Quotes
Since then Ive found many other places in the U.S. where I feel absolutely comfortable - most recently, Key West, where Ive been very, very happy. - Harry Mathews Quotes
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 Quotes
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. - Harry Mathews Quotes
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. - Harry Mathews Quotes
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