Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you … - Jack Driscoll

community is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he
she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact, synonymous: Sapho of Lesbos, for example. Or my middle namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. Jesus of Nazareth.">

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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

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 is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he
she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact, synonymous: Sapho of Lesbos, for example. Or my middle namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. Jesus of Nazareth.

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

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

Actors, Mirror, See, Travel The World, World

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 writing lyrical fiction has been informed by three decades of writing in lines and stanzas. For me the real drama of fiction is almost always the drama of the language.

Drama, Everything, Fiction, Real, Writing

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 names, middle names, combinations of. I've collected more over the years than I can possibly ever use in a single lifetime, but I keep the list going nonetheless. I tell my students that it's a habit, an act of attention, that will keep them engaged, keep them thinking about characters and stories, and how that match might get made.

Character, Names, Single, Single Life, Thinking, Use

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 from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and psyches of these characters I'm likely to go, opening every door in that dark hallway, and walking all the way in.

Character, Characters, Hallway, Heart, Improve, Writing