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I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a… — Sloane Crosley
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in… — Sloane Crosley
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a… — Annie Dillard
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence… — Umberto Eco
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer… — Will Ferrell
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. — Leslie Fiedler
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of...… — Anthony Hopkins
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the… — Tony Judt
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to… — Tony Kushner
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather… — Joyce Carol Oates
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own… — Joyce Carol Oates
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous… — Marilynne Robinson
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. — Jose Saramago
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have… — Sam Shepard
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me. — Zadie Smith
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development… — Dylan Thomas
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation… — Tom Wolfe
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts… — Virginia Woolf
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong

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