Essays Quote by Kiese Laymon

What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material has to…

— Meghan Daum

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

— Anonymous

You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

— Phillip Lopate

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't…

— Hilton Als

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

— Marilynne Robinson

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others'…

— Marty Nemko

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

— Phillip Lopate

“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I…

— William Styron