Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person… — Jen Glantz Copy Share Image
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Marie Pitt Copy Share Image