Robert Morgan Quotes

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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

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 Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

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.

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

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.