When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye reports to the brain, but the ear reports to the heart." Perhaps this is the thing… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are at least… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories. I sometimes… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I am by nature not a list-keeper, but I do keep lists of names and add at least one or two every single day… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
