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The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile… — Steve Rubel
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… — Arthur Helps
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out… — Nicholson Baker
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the… — Constance Baker Motley
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday… — Joy Behar
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. — Chuck Klosterman
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things… — Chuck Klosterman
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's… — Ross Douthat
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I… — Sophie Kinsella
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life. — David McCord
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write… — Charles Darwin
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough… — David Shrigley
A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone… — Tom Stoppard
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional… — Charles Krauthammer
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in. — Jodie Foster
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays,… — Joan Collins
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. — Michael Connelly
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley

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