I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old. — Jack Driscoll Adolescence 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 Agree 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… — Jack Driscoll Cease to exist 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… — Jack Driscoll Character 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.… — Jack Driscoll Beginning 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… — Jack Driscoll Feelings 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… — Jack Driscoll All kinds 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… — Jack Driscoll Drama 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… — Jack Driscoll Chance 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… — Jack Driscoll Attention Copy Share Image
If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am. — Jack Driscoll Books Copy Share Image
When Kevin Brockmeier says, "Everything, given the possibility, would choose to be a song," I recognize the implicit truth of such a… — Jack Driscoll Miracle 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… — Jack Driscoll Belief Copy Share Image
I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a "northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus." My editor called me after… — Jack Driscoll Finding myself 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,… — Jack Driscoll Art Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who… — Jack Driscoll American writer Copy Share Image
