I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind…

I don't like writing essays or theory.

— Adrian Mitchell

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't…

— Hilton Als

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might…

— Pattiann Rogers

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am…

— Phillip Lopate

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in…

— Ruskin Bond

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

— Aaron Belz

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I…

— Diane Cilento

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

— Anne Fadiman

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone…

— Tony Kushner

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which…

— Paul Auster

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

— Josh Billings

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the…

— Gene Simmons

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

— Voltaire