Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word "liberal," they also have to take back the word "elite." By now… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their… — Robert James Waller 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
I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“The house-cat is a four-legged quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners. It is what is sometimes called a tame… — Helen Exley Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
