Always Quote by Chris Abani Download Open image “I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.” — Chris Abani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Always Audience Best Best way Communicate Essays I love Larger Love Way
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
My teacher told us essays are like skirts…Long enough to cover the subject short enough to make it interesting. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months. — William Regal Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement. — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
