Essayists Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
• Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph… — Richard Lederer
• Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true… — William Ernest Henley
• Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker
• There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
• I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann
• Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or… — Leo Rosten
• Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the… — Cynthia Ozick

Who Wrote These Essayists Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Essayists Quotes as follows:

• 1 Essayists Quote by John T. Flynn
• 1 Essayists Quote by Richard Lederer
• 1 Essayists Quote by William Ernest Henley
• 1 Essayists Quote by Nicholson Baker
• 1 Essayists Quote by Charles J. Shields
• 1 Essayists Quote by Jacqueline Susann
• 1 Essayists Quote by Leo Rosten
• 1 Essayists Quote by Cynthia Ozick