Boys Quote by John D'Agata

“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.”

— Jill Talbot

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

— E.B. White

In 'Poster Boys,' every character is well defined.

— Bobby Deol

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal essays no…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.”

— Gita Mehta

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

— Karl Kraus

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

— Aldous Huxley

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that…

— Joseph Brodsky

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of…

— Robert Aris Willmott

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

— Susan Sontag