“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do… — John Steakley Copy Share Image
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's… — Tim Carmody Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word "liberal," they also have to take back the word "elite." By now… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the… — Lara Vapnyar Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
