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Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

— Scott McClanahan

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

— Chris Abani

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

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

— Carl Bereiter

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

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

— Marilynne Robinson

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

— Carol Bly

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

— Susan Sontag

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

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

Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense…

— Charles D'Ambrosio