I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of… — David McCord Copy Share Image
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
