James Dickey Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

  James Dickey

  Writing, Realizing, Love Poetry

• If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

  James Dickey

  Writing, Dresses, Wells

• 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 Dickey

  Couple, Writing, Trying

• Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

  James Dickey

  Writing, Technique, Leopards

  James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.168, LSU Press

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