Writing Quotes by Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

All I’ve tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Capture

Essence

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Glory

Nancy

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

I’ve been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It’s a kind of pain I can’t do without.

Done

Pain

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don’t mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

Mean

Thinking

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Needs

Real

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Confusion

Ordinary

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

The poem . . . is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Meaningful

Men

Writing

Robert Penn Warren

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Annoying

Scratches

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Robert Penn Warren

All I’ve tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I’ve been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It’s a kind of pain I can’t do without.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don’t mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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