I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
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
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe 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
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum 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
“Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff 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
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
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, ''Is life a multiple choice test, or is it a true or false… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because… — Dan Savage 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
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching… — Leonard Nimoy 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
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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