“Any time I get a little money that I can spend on myself, I buy another typewriter and put it in another room and start another project. It could be a novel, it could be a poem I’m working on, it could be a translation, it could be an essay, a literary criticism, it could be a children’s book, it could be a film script and it could be whatever it is I’m interested in doing at the time. And in a strange way the different projects kind of cross-pollinate one another. It’s very odd. Almost a mystical process. You see something in one typewriter that would be better off in another typewriter.”

– James Dickey,
in an interview with Don Swaim in 1987