Essays Quotes · Page 16

Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion.…

— John Shelby Spong

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

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages…

— Pattiann Rogers

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the…

— Gloria Steinem

The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems…

— Al Gore

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships…

— Sherry Ortner

“Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they…

— T.S Eliot

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag,…

— Phillip Lopate

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was…

— Gloria Estefan

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And…

— Alexander Chee

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without…

— Siri Hustvedt

I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.…

— Ellen Gilchrist

When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion…

— Ernest Bramah

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A…

— Chinua Achebe

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

— Carlos Mencia

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with…

— Alan Ryan

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

— John D'Agata

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

Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is…

— Susan Sontag

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be…

— Michael Connelly

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to…

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts…

— Jane Hirshfield

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past…

— Kilroy J. Oldster