"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, American Writer

Events, Information

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

Teresa de Lauretis, Italian Author

Events, Thinking

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

Events,

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

Lanford Wilson, American Playwright

Events,

"By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve."

Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist

Events,

"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

Events, Want

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Events, Invention, Obligation, Writer

"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Events,

"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."

Richard Cobden, British Businessman

Events,

"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."

Walter Lord, American Author

Events, Future

Explore more quotes by Robert Morgan

"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

Literature, Example, Fiction, Poets, Writing

"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 dead end."

Poetry, End, Language, Poets

"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."

Art, Poetry, Alchemy

"In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking."

Poetry, Sound, Talking, Voice

"Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form."

Poetry, Attention, Language

"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."

Blood, Students, Will, Writer

"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."

Poetry, Deep

"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."

Family, Writers

"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."

Poems, Poets, Writing

"I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale."

Love, Poetry, Time, Choice