Great Quote by Tara Westover

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

— Jill Lepore

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

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're…

— Bob Shacochis

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

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a…

— Anne Fadiman

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 entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though…

— Ruby Bentall

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch…

— Flannery O'Connor

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley