Quotes About James Dickey

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

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

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

But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief--I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination.