I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. Harry Mathews Read Quote
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 reader’s opportunities to follow it at every step. Harry Mathews Read Quote
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 Read Quote
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. Harry Mathews Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My mother could never understand why I didn’t write a thriller, which I’ve finally done. Harry Mathews Read Quote
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding. Harry Mathews Read Quote
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 Read Quote
