Best Essays Quotations
199 Essays quotes by 175 unique authors
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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
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
— Chris Abani
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The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
— Theodor Adorno
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;…
— Wole Soyinka
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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
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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming…
— Franka Potente
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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
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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
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Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are…
— Aaron Swartz
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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
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History begins in novel and ends in essay.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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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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What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see…
— Leonard Nimoy
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When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for…
— Eddie Vedder
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the name…
— Richard Boone
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The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
— Marilynne Robinson
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Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly…
— Phillip Lopate
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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
— David Herbert Donald
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To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
— Robert Breault
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,…
— Susan Sontag
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
— Donna Tartt
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