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Way to go on this essay, hleepd a ton.

— Libby

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a…

— Ian McEwan

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

“It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard…

— Barry Lopez

“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But…

— Steven Pressfield

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of…

— George Orwell

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White

“There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, had filled…

— Joseph Conrad