Best Essay Quotations
132 Essay quotes by 111 unique authors
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
— Mao Zedong
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In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a…
— Charles M. Schulz
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them…
— Ray Bradbury
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My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''…
— Neil Gaiman
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught…
— C.S. Lewis
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I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who…
— Helene Hanff
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It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an…
— David Wroblewski
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely…
— Mao Zedong
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All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or…
— Rick Riordan
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Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only…
— Jack Canfield
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Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on…
— Rick Riordan
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There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,…
— Alberto Manguel
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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or…
— Anne Lamott
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From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.…
— Nora Ephron
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Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,…
— Jodi Picoult
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You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
— Nora Roberts
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Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and…
— Robert Bringhurst
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I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I…
— Matthew Quick
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The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact,…
— Maureen Johnson
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Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use…
— Richelle Mead
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Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately,…
— Mao Zedong
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If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
— Unknown Author
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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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