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
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays — E. B. White 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
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you… — David Shrigley 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
I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever… — Gloria Steinem 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
A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts.… — Tom Stoppard 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
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion 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
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will… — Doris McCarthy 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
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.” — Federico Mangahas Copy Share Image
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
“Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald 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
