I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting… — Joyce Carol Oates 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'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros 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
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my… — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by… — John Dalton 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
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these… — Roxane Gay 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
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe,… — Tom Bissell 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
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the… — Gaston Bachelard 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
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things… — Elif Batuman 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
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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