Essays Quote by E. B. White

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

— E.B. White

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey

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

“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Dani Shapiro

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Phillip Lopate

“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Marilynne Robinson

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

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody