Adventure Quote by John D'Agata

““Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has sprung from the word 'question'.””

John D'Agata

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Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

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Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You…

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I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

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As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I…

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I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as…

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You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

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Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…

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I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the…

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A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

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You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither…

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Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

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I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays…

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