What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I try to use my privilege to deconstruct from inside the racist, homophobic, heterocentric house, as an ally, while compatriot tools dismantle… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this:… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
![“[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without…” quote by Scott McClanahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ec7/scott-mcclanahan-14739_alive_he-stopped-loving-her-today-is-all-about_2962955.jpg)
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