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,…

- Robert Morgan

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

- 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 doin…

- Robert Morgan

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to…

- Robert Morgan

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

- Robert Morgan

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I f…

- 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 write…

- Robert Morgan

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

- Robert Morgan

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese p…

- Robert Morgan