James Dickey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To 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.”

“He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.”

“You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.”

“I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.”

“The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.”

“William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.”

“I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.”