"Young writers only take off when they find……" — Robert Morgan
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
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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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More Almost Everyone Quotes
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
— Richard Dawkins
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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored…
— Kent McCord
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The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough…
— Candace Cameron
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You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our…
— Oscar Robertson
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.
— Charles Bukowski
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Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied…
— R C Sproul
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