Robert Penn Warren Quotes About Writing

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Writing, Needs

• El poema... es un pequeño mito de la capacidad del hombre para dar sentido a la vida. Y al final, el poema no es algo que vemos, sino una luz que nos permite ver, y lo que vemos es la vida.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Writing, Men

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Confusion, Ordinary

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Scratches, Annoying

  1969 In the New York Times, 16 Dec.

• 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.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Essence, Capture

• No espero que me oigan escribir ningún poema a la mayor gloria de Ronald y Nancy Reagan.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Glory, Nancy

  1986 On being appointed the first US Poet Laureate. In the Washington Post, 27 Feb.

• 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.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Pain, Writing, Done

  National Observer, March 12, 1977.

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