Time & Perspective Quote by Robert Morgan

There is a quiet ambition hiding inside Morgan's plainspoken craft talk: the urge to smuggle lived experience into the widest possible public space. He frames storytelling less as self-expression than as delivery system. "Those characters" aren't just inventions; they're emissaries. A soldier saying this matters. Military life trains you to think in terms of reach, audience, and impact, and Morgan repurposes that mindset toward art: the goal is not simply to write well, but to get the story across borders of class, education, and taste.

His real argument is about medium and legitimacy. By conceding that "you normally think of prose" as the default vehicle, he implies competition - with theater, radio, film, oral storytelling, maybe even the war-story tradition of the barracks and the pub. Prose wins here because it's portable, reproducible, and scalable: it can circulate without a stage, a budget, or a gatekeeper willing to greenlight production. For someone born in 1918, that portability would have been newly intensified across his lifetime by mass literacy, cheap paperbacks, and the postwar appetite for narrative that could be consumed privately.

"It fits our time, the culture" is the most revealing line because it's both confident and defensive. Morgan is naturalizing prose as the medium of modernity, suggesting that the culture itself has been built to receive it. Subtext: if your characters matter, you choose the form that the present can absorb. It's an artist's version of tactical realism - not romantic about art's purity, but serious about art's reach.