Books Quote by Amitava Kumar

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,…

— Cynthia Ozick

The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic,…

— Stanley Fish

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing…

— Alan Lightman

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

— 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. So, writing…

— Tim Winton

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

— John D'Agata

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

— Tyler Childers

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

— Chris Abani

“You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.”

— Carole Maso

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a…

— Chuck Klosterman

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like…

— John Ralston Saul

The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in…

— Maureen Johnson