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.
From Harry Mathews
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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.
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
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.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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