Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.