Will Morgan
Will Morgan
Will Morganis a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented District 56B, which includes portions of Dakota County in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a physics teacher at Burnsville High School in Burnsville...
mistake work-out people
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.
trying
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.
watches done
I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.
writing moments
The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.
moments
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.
writing who-i-am ideas
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
mean together working-together
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.
reading fiction pleasure
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
reading guy littles
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
country other-worlds leader
The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
taken writing knowing
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.
exercise thinking important
I wrote Hereafter quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
thinking oil expectations
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same,
distance analogies narrative
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.