Harry Mathews Quotes

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. - Harry Mathews

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. - Harry Mathews

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. - Harry Mathews

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 they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. - Harry Mathews

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

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

Very few campus chapters build a house every year, which is about what this one does. - Sharry Mathews

She's waited far longer than she should have. Bonnie has been waiting longer than anyone on our waiting list. - Sharry Mathews

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

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

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