All time Quote by Thucydides

I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess.

— Michael McDonald

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

— Marilynne Robinson

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”

— Thucydides

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

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

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

— Dani Shapiro

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

— Dwight Yoakam

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

I write what's given me to write.

— Philip Levine

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln