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Writing Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
- The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
- The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov