"An idea might spark an essay, but never…" — Amy Hempel

More Essay Quotes

This quote is filed under Essay Quotes, one of 132 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton
• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me… — Jarvis Cocker
• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
• We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws… — John Dalton
• The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class,… — Gloria Estefan
• Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As… — Abraham Pais
• When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional… — David Foster Wallace
• Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course.… — Israel Gelfand
• I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as… — Thucydides
• The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged… — Thucydides
• In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in… — Henry A. Kissinger
• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in… — Fareed Zakaria

See all 132 Essay Quotes »