Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If… — Dennis Lindley 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
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
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It's something you accept, condone, and learn to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
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
“To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore 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
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
