About Quote by Keith Gessen

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

— Carl Bereiter

“Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it…

— Elly Griffiths

“There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become…

— John Micklethwait

“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his…

— Jack L. Chalker

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

— Al Gore

“As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”—most…

— Thomas E Ricks

“George Orwell wrote disparagingly of “the masochism of the English Left”: its readiness to ally with any cause, however vile, provided it was sufficiently…

— Daniel Hannan

I just wrote out a long description of my best dream and realised telling people your dreams just can't be allowed, it's too boring.

— Charlotte Ritchie

“Did I ever tell you that my mother and father started out as pen pals? They wrote these long, unabashedly affectionate love letters to…

— Marla Miniano

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

— Mark Twain

“She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper”

— Travel Schedule

“I wanted to write you a short letter but I hadnt time…so I wrote you a long one..”

— Conor Lynch