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Harry Mathews quotes

American Author February 14, 1930

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Harry Mathews quote: "Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was..."
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews quote: "I love teaching."
I love teaching. Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews quote: "My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a..."
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. 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
It's 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
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
Harry Mathews quote: "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very..."
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. 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
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. Harry Mathews
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
Harry Mathews quote: "My mother could never understand why I didn't write a..."
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews quote: "When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge..."
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. Harry Mathews
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
Harry Mathews quote: "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how..."
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. 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

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