When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays;… — Tom Wolfe 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
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio 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
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
“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
