I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.


A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris (ed. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1977)

John Hawkes Quotes

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned...

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned...

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned...

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned...