“Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.” — E.B. White 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 write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever,… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt 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 truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
