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- No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — 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… — Richard Lederer
- Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — 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… — 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,… — Leo Rosten
- Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick