"When you have an idea for a story,……" — Robert Morgan
"When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture."
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59 Quotes by Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan has 59 quotes on this site.
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We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them…
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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O…
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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through…
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach…
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one…
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much…
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to…
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into…
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry…
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search…
— Paul Auster
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
— Kevin Bacon
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
— Christian Bale
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