It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.
James DickeyThere are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
James DickeyTo have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
James DickeyThe women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
James Dickey