First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens - and yes, by choice, and for a long time now - to live in this particular… — 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
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a "northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus." My editor called me after the review… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share
First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens -… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share
