I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really… — Tony Kushner 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
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we… — Charles D'Ambrosio 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
The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters.… — Jill Talbot 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
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
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
“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you… — Gloria Steinem 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
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki 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
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 still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
