Confidant Quote by E. B. White

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

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have…

— William Ernest Henley

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your…

— William Ernest Henley

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists.…

— Alan Lightman

“Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly…

— Edmund Bergler

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must…

— Flora Thompson

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing…

— Alan Lightman

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai