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Robert Morgan

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

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Donna Grant

"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

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Donna Grant

"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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Donna Grant

"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

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Robert Morgan
"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 fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

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

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Robert Morgan
"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."

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Robert Morgan
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."

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Robert Morgan
"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."

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Robert Morgan
"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."

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Robert Morgan
"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."

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Robert Morgan
"If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me."

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Robert Morgan
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."

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Robert Morgan
"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."

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