I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay… — Woody Allen 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 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
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where… — Chelsea Martin 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
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of… — David McCord Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully… — Robert Scholes 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
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And… — Bruce Friedrich 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
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
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser 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
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 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
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
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
“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
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
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