And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt. — Harry Mathews
I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. — Harry Mathews
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. — Harry Mathews
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn’t. — Harry Mathews
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. — Harry Mathews
I graduated in 1952 and went to europe, with niki and our first child laura, who was then a year old. — Harry Mathews
I thought cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. — Harry Mathews
I’d been brought up on the upper east side in a wasp society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews
I was stationed in norfolk, virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better — Harry Mathews
It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because — Harry Mathews
My mother could never understand why I didn’t write a thriller, which I’ve finally done. — Harry Mathews
My idea was to go to vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first — Harry Mathews
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words — 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, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. — Harry Mathews
