I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“We should be simiarly wary of acceping common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote” — Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592 Copy Share Image
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average. — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's… — James Payn 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
[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered… — Cole Swensen 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
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays;… — Tom Wolfe 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
“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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