When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm…

I wrote 'The Assistants' while I was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of 'Esquire.'

— Camille Perri

There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you…

— Robert Benton

“Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it. Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10”

— Philip Roth

“The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.”

— Gabriel Byrne

“Jim Jones was a dedicated Esquire reader, and for him its January 1962 issue (which reached newsstands in December 1961) could not have been…

— Jeff Guinn

I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of…

— Laurence Shames

“The boos always come from the cheap seats. We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others”

— James Lee Burke

“You can’t change the music of your soul. —In Esquire, 1967”

— Katharine Hepburn

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most…

— Laurence Shames

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog

— Vera Farmiga

“America’s short-lived experiment with language planning is so obscure to modern memory that while the Klingon language has a 3,000-word entry on Wikipedia, as…

— Robert Lane Greene

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

— Willem de Kooning

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and…

— David Freeman Hawke

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl…

— Jean Fritz