What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Harry MathewsI graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
Harry MathewsTranslation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Harry MathewsI was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Harry Mathews