Different Quote by Chuck Klosterman

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

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

— Phillip Lopate

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe…

— Neil Diamond

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

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

— Chris Abani

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

— Chris Abani

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

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 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

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…

— Sloane Crosley

Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

— Phillip Lopate