Belief 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

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

— Alan Lightman

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

“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like…

— Kate Zambreno

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

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject…

— E. B. White

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,…

— Cynthia Ozick

“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A personal essayist…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel…

— Sally Rooney

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is…

— Alfred Kazin

“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