Activist Quote by Kevin Sessums

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

— June Foray

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my…

— Omari Hardwick

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

— Chris Abani

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going to be…

— Judith Jamison

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead…

— Mian Mian

I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break…

— Jesse Andrews

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to…

— David Rakoff

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There…

— Haruki Murakami

“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer,…

— Cherrie Moraga

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly