Drama Quote 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…

— Jack Driscoll

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

— Jack Driscoll

Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

— Jack Driscoll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll