I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay. — Carlos Mencia 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
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized,… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they… — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
