I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a "northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus." My editor called me after the review came out and asked if…

- 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 ever learned about wri…

- Jack Driscoll

Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place fr…

- Jack Driscoll

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 fo…

- Jack Driscoll

Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the day…

- 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 without exception. First names, last name…

- 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 p…

- Jack Driscoll

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

- Jack Driscoll