Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
