Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman 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
“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. — Paul Theroux 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
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he… — Jan Karon 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've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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
You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
