I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.” — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay… — David Shields Copy Share Image
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
After readinf some essay on the nature of human fallibility, I was very aware that we are the recipients of a huge… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“So in this Hemisphere when the moon goes down, I sit in one of those all-night-into-mornings cafes, watching short short skies below… — Joseph Maviglia Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've… — Rae Morris Copy Share Image
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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