Writing essays Quotes

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

— Abigail Breslin

“The world is full of educated derelicts”

— Calvin Coolidge

I don't like writing essays or theory.

— Adrian Mitchell

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

— Per Brinch Hansen

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of…

— Aaron Belz

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was…

— Ruskin Bond

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

— Anne Fadiman

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing…

— Sasha Velour

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what…

— Chang-Rae Lee

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages…

— Pattiann Rogers

Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were…

— Elif Batuman

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at…

— Diane Cilento

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

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this:…

— Hilton Als

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected…

— Paul Auster

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,…

— Phillip Lopate

I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.…

— Tim Winton

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

— Josh Billings