Essays Quotes

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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be… — Lenny Bruce
For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided… — Jarvis Cocker
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,… — Maya Angelou
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the… — Maya Angelou
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of… — John Dalton
The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was… — Gloria Estefan
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. — Emilia Clarke
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing… — Israel Gelfand
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely… — Arthur Kleinman
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved… — Diane Cilento
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time — Thucydides
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides

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