--- title: "12 Writing Quotes By John D'Agata" description: "12 Writing quotes by John D'Agata. Plus more from John D'Agata and more Writing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/874/john-d-agata-13689_considering_i-look-for-the-kind-of-text-that-doesn-t_1065411.jpg" --- > [I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-look-for-the-kind-of-text-that-doesn-t-look-like-the-writer-i-m/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/874/john-d-agata-13689_considering_i-look-for-the-kind-of-text-that-doesn-t_1065411.jpg) > [I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-know-it-sounds-silly-but-disrespecting-a-dead-writer-by-sitting-in/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/john-d-agata-13689_chairs_i-know-it-sounds-silly-but-disrespecting_1034574.jpg) > [What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/what-i-didn-t-realize-when-i-was-in-school-and-what-i-suspect-a-lot/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/john-d-agata-13689_art_what-i-didn-t-realize-when-i-was-in-scho_1715289.jpg) > [Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/sometimes-what-i-m-looking-for-is-the-thing-that-will-help-renew/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/john-d-agata-13689_helping_sometimes-what-i-m-looking-for-is-the-th_564098.jpg) > [The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/the-essay-community-should-have-hundreds-of-anthologies-from-hundreds/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/john-d-agata-13689_anthologies_the-essay-community-should-have-hundreds_3140848.jpg) > [Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/even-if-it-s-a-definition-that-feels-oppressive-to-us-that-oppression/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/781/john-d-agata-13689_boundaries_even-if-it-s-a-definition-that-feels-opp_287123.jpg) > [Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/plutarch-s-peers-were-writing-rhetorics-which-were-these-dry/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/john-d-agata-13689_anecdotes_plutarch-s-peers-were-writing-rhetorics_2312842.jpg) > [When you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/when-you-re-a-young-writer-and-you-look-at-people-praising-a-big/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/john-d-agata-13689_anthology_when-you-re-a-young-writer-and-you-look_2100344.jpg) > [I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-m-not-a-poet-but-i-was-in-the-poetry-program-and-i-m-also-not-much/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/john-d-agata-13689_late_i-m-not-a-poet-but-i-was-in-the-poetry-p_1814806.jpg) > [As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/as-a-student-at-the-time-i-kind-of-felt-like-my-only-options-as-a/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3e/john-d-agata-13689_bus_as-a-student-at-the-time-i-kind-of-felt_2204980.jpg) > [While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/while-i-was-in-school-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-write-an-essay-that/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a0/john-d-agata-13689_enough_while-i-was-in-school-trying-to-figure-o_2147525.jpg) > [You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/you-re-often-looking-at-writing-from-writers-who-for-the-most-part/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/732/john-d-agata-13689_cracks_you-re-often-looking-at-writing-from-wri_1278774.jpg) ## Other authors on Writing - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-king-87054.jpg) Stephen King 345 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/stephen-king/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ernest-hemingway-33795.jpg) Ernest Hemingway 243 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/ernest-hemingway/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 186 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 185 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/neil-gaiman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anne-lamott-13804.jpg) Anne Lamott 153 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/anne-lamott/) - [Samuel Johnson 134 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-haruki-murakami-40784.jpg) Haruki Murakami 130 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/haruki-murakami/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-woolf-93906.jpg) Virginia Woolf 128 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/virginia-woolf/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 123 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-saunders-37966.jpg) George Saunders 118 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/george-saunders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-carol-oates-53785.jpg) Joyce Carol Oates 110 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/joyce-carol-oates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-natalie-goldberg-70301.jpg) Natalie Goldberg 107 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/natalie-goldberg/) ## More by John D'Agata > [Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/inclusiveness-isn-t-what-i-want-to-push-back-against-the-obsession/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/yet-there-are-some-critics-in-the-nonfiction-world-who-still-look-at/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-think-that-in-a-lot-of-readers-minds-the-essay-is-a-lot-more/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/as-frustrating-as-my-time-in-grad-school-felt-it-also-helped/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-m-not-worried-about-what-part-of-their-life-they-needed-to-massage/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/you-create-your-own-audience-and-your-own-community-of-peers-and-in/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/even-if-it-s-a-definition-that-feels-oppressive-to-us-that-oppression/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-thought-that-i-wasn-t-an-essayist-because-i-just-didn-t-see-myself/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/a-risk-is-something-that-feels-risky-to-the-person-who-s-taking-it/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/you-move-your-life-across-the-country-and-make-a-commitment-to-a/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/pedagogically-we-need-definitions-and-borders-they-help-us-get-our/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [“Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/maybe-every-essay-automatically-is-in-some-way-experimental-less-an/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/i-wanted-to-create-an-environment-in-which-more-than-just-personal/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/sometimes-what-i-m-looking-for-is-the-thing-that-will-help-renew/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) > [It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/it-s-fun-to-just-skim-through-piles-of-books-in-the-stacks-of-a/) [John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/john-d-agata/#itemlist", "name": "12 Writing Quotes By John D'Agata", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. 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