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

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

Robert Penn Warren
Real, Writing, Needs

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

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
Writing, Mean, Thinking

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.

Robert Penn Warren
Meaningful, Writing, Men
1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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.

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

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

Robert Penn Warren
Writing, Essence, Capture

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