Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec 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
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
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop… — Stuart Dybek 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
Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux 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
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia 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
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an… — Stanley Fish 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
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
