Clever Quote by David Starkey

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

— Chris Abani

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

— Marilynne Robinson

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

— Danny Wallace

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

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

— Phillip Lopate

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

— Phillip Lopate

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

— Sasha Velour

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 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 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

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

— Dani Shapiro

What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material has to…

— Meghan Daum