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 is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he/she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact,… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share
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 sunshine, and the measures one takes - if they're locals, permanent residents - against an environment such as this. And most vulnerable/susceptible are the kids, who have no options other than to scheme and dream themselves… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share
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
