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Robert Morgan Quotes: I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
         

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.


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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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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.



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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.



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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.



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.

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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