“I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.” NeedsSoundHundredFiftySpontaneous Author:James Dickey
“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.” WritingTryingSometimesProcessLinesCoupleLowsHundredToughGoldInspiredEndlessCraftsAwfulGradesDirtVariationRefiningSingle Line Author:James Dickey
