Apprenticeship Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marilynne Robinson

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a…

— Chuck Klosterman

In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever, and realised…

— David Starkey

Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing…

— Tim Winton

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in…

— Ruskin Bond

“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A personal essayist…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure.…

— George Saunders

“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not…

— Susan Sontag

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,…

— Cynthia Ozick

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books…

— Madison Smartt Bell