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Writing Quotes by Robert Morgan
- I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
- I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
- Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
- I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for…
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of…
- Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Maybe…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster