Collections Quote by Augusten Burroughs

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

— Dani Shapiro

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as…

— Sloane Crosley

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

— Dolly Parton

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of…

— Kate Zambreno

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

— Thom Gunn

“I started keeping journals when I was fourteen and at last count had nearly a thousand. They come in all shapes and sizes, from…

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Ruskin Bond

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

— Eden Robinson

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my…

— Gary Lutz