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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/first-of-all-i-don-t-think-of-myself-as-a-northern-michigan-writer-i/)

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## More by Jack Driscoll

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/jose-ortega-y-gasset-says-tell-me-the-landscape-in-which-you-live-and/)

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> [I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-joke-sometimes-that-i-live-a-protracted-adolescence-that-a-part-of/)

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> [Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/actors-they-travel-the-world-and-all-they-see-is-a-mirror/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/once-a-poet-always-a-poet-and-even-though-i-haven-t-written-poems-for/)

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> [As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/as-a-writer-i-find-it-a-literal-impossibility-to-disengage-from/)

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> [As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/as-david-roderick-says-about-writing-it-s-not-the-tale-that-pleases/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-m-always-looking-for-poetry-s-place-in-the-prose-for-that-moment/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-can-t-really-recreate-or-reconstruct-exactly-how-or-from-where-any/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

> [Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/nothing-is-more-fatiguing-than-winter-the-extreme-and-unrelenting/)

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> [I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories. I sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-began-as-a-poet-moved-to-short-fiction-then-to-novel-writing-and/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-am-by-nature-not-a-list-keeper-but-i-do-keep-lists-of-names-and-add/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

> [When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/when-robert-bly-visited-interlochen-center-for-the-arts-so-many-years/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

> [If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/if-i-don-t-read-i-get-lonely-if-i-don-t-write-i-forget-who-i-am/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

> [I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a "northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus." My editor called me after the review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/i-was-once-referred-to-in-a-kirkus-review-as-a-northern-michigan/)

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> [First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/first-of-all-i-don-t-think-of-myself-as-a-northern-michigan-writer-i/)

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