Essays Quote by Jerry Seinfeld

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Phillip Lopate

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

— John D'Agata

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though…

— Ruby Bentall

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

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Phillip Lopate

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Chris Abani

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past.…

— Jim Mattis

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

“Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has…

— John D'Agata