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

— Jill Lepore

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

— Dani Shapiro

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

— Chris Abani

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean…

— Ayelet Waldman

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some…

— Rae Morris

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to a temple.…

— Sudha Murty

“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

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

— Phillip Lopate