I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending… — Judith Sargent Murray 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
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
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
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
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
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel 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
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley 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
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
“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
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
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide 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
