A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn 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
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my… — Chelsea Cain 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 don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the… — Lara Vapnyar Copy Share Image
Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of… — Meghan Daum 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
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick 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
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do… — Richard Boone 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
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
