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
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle 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
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
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously… — Cyra McFadden Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg 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
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
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
Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions… — Mary Blakely 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
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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