The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
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“I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps 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
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will… — Doris McCarthy Copy Share Image
The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, ''Is life a multiple choice test, or is it a true or false… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“My hope is that you read these pages and know you aren’t alone when you submit your short work. You are part… — Windy Lynn Harris Copy Share Image
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