Home / Quotes / Quote by Eliza Griswold

Quote by Eliza Griswold

“We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.”

Quote by Eliza Griswold

Author

Eliza Griswold is an American journalist renowned for her coverage of the Middle East. Born on February 9, 1973, she graduated from Harvard University and later obtained a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Griswold's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

Writing Long Real Language Poet Drama Lyrical

Author:Jack Driscoll

“As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.”

Author:Jack Driscoll

“I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader.”

Moments Feelings Perception Musical Prose

Author:Jack Driscoll

“When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye reports to the brain, but the ear reports to the heart." Perhaps this is the thing that musicians can do that writers can't ever, quite, but it is what I aspire to, that sense/power of the auditory, and the belief that to hear more clearly is to see more clearly, and that to see more clearly is to feel more deeply.”

Writing Heart Art Eye Belief Brain Creative Musician Creative Writing

Author:Jack Driscoll

“When Kevin Brockmeier says, "Everything, given the possibility, would choose to be a song," I recognize the implicit truth of such a miracle. What can I say, I'm Irish, and we take naturally to that sort of thing.”

Song Possibility Miracle

Author: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.”

People Long Character Jesus Community Who You Are Saint

Author:Jack Driscoll

“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 I was okay with that. What part? I wondered. Finding myself in the same sentence with Andre Dubus? What could be better than that? Or perhaps - and more likely, my editor meant being pigeonholed as a writer of this remote region "mostly ignored by the rest of the world," as Jim Harrison says.”

World Okay Ignored Finding Myself

Author: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 for a long time now - to live in this particular place, and where, as the joke goes, there are only three seasons: July, August, and winter.”

Thinking Long Choices Jokes Winter American Writer

Author:Jack Driscoll

“Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without sunshine, and the measures one takes - if they're locals, permanent residents - against an environment such as this. And most vulnerable/susceptible are the kids, who have no options other than to scheme and dream themselves into all kinds of trouble.”

Kind Dream Kids Environment Trouble Winter Snow All Kinds Vulnerable Sunshine Sameness

Author: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 part of the ongoing narrative is informed by it. In other words, try relocating the stories elsewhere, and what's the effect? They almost immediately cease to exist.”

Trying Elsewhere Impossibility

Author:Jack Driscoll