Childhood Quote by Jill Lepore

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

— Josh Billings

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in…

— Ruskin Bond

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

— Aaron Belz

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I…

— Diane Cilento

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

— Anne Fadiman

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might…

— Pattiann Rogers

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone…

— Tony Kushner

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't…

— Hilton Als

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which…

— Paul Auster

Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am…

— Phillip Lopate

“Art is childhood, after all,” wrote Rilke”

— Stephanie Dowrick

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw…

— Doris Lessing

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of…

— Michael Jackson

I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do…

— Kevin Sessums