Essay writing Quote by Susan Sontag

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

— Chris Abani

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

— Dani Shapiro

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write…

— Mark Twain

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've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk…

— Aldous Huxley

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

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman