Quote by Carole Maso

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

— Marilynne Robinson

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point…

— Winston Churchill

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

— John D'Agata

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

— John D'Agata

“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with your conclusions.”

— Stephen King

“Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I wanted our teachers to refrain from providing conclusions as starting points, but rather insist that students assemble valid evidence to reach their own…

— Deborah Kenny

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

— Aldous Huxley

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

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give…

— John D'Agata

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”

— Craig M. Mullaney

“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and 'To conclude'.”

— John Green