Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay. — Ray Bradbury 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
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
Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“We should be simiarly wary of acceping common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote” — Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592 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
I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's… — James Payn Copy Share Image
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly… — Anthony Bourdain 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
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
After readinf some essay on the nature of human fallibility, I was very aware that we are the recipients of a huge… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. — Robert Breault 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
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
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