Essay Quotes

132 Essay quotes by 111 unique authors

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able… — Adam Parfrey
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of… — Dennis Lindley
Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the… — Charles M. Schulz
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the… — Gaston Bachelard
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and… — Jeremy Brett
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond… — Unknown Author
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the… — Robert James Waller
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… — Albert Camus
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,… — Isaac Newton
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out… — Margaret Bourke-White
The point of the essay is to change things. — Edward Tufte
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid… — Tony Kushner
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. — Chris Abani
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy — Theodor Adorno
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do… — Walt Whitman
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On… — Alan Ryan
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that… — James Payn
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his… — Jan Karon
History begins in novel and ends in essay. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to… — Ellen Gilchrist

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