"Find something only you can say" — James Dickey
"Find something only you can say"
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James Dickey
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30 Quotes by James Dickey
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and…
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If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which…
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally…
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing…
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human…
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