Always Quote by Glenn Ligon

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it…

— Michel Foucault

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

— John D'Agata

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

— Chris Abani

“What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or — worse yet — leaving the blanks blank?”

— John D'Agata

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

Writing has to support itself.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

— Marilynne Robinson

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an…

— Cynthia Ozick

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

— Tyler Childers

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

— John D'Agata

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge