In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay… — David Shields 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
I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've… — Rae Morris 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
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver 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
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
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'. — Anne Fadiman 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'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
“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
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays… — Sebastian Coe 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
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote.… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot… — Steve Rubel Copy Share Image
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
