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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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Personal Development
"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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Personal Development
"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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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."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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Explore more quotes by Robert Morgan
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
Fiction
"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
Reading
"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
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
Poetry
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
Students
"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
Time
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
Poetry
"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
Time
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
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