Along Quote by Chris Abani

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need…

— Chris Abani

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes…

— Michel Foucault

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint…

— Elizabeth Price

I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or…

— Lynne Tillman

I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to…

— Lynne Tillman

“Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

— E.B. White

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever, and realised…

— David Starkey

So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to a temple.…

— Sudha Murty

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning…

— Maya Hawke

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

— Taiye Selasi

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White