Essay Quotes

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

David Wroblewski

ExperienceWorthTrueFirstEssay

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf

GoodQualityPermanentOutEssayUs

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

David Shields

LifeLoveInvestigationEssayIdea

Vera Caspary wrote an essay called 'My 'Laura' and Otto's' where she talks about the arguments she had with Preminger. She felt that not only did he misunderstand the character but that he couldn't help but be misogynist.

Sarah Weinman

CharacterHelpSheEssayWhereOnly

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

BeautifulPoetryFirstFictionEssay

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Sasha Velour

TimeSpeakTryWriteEssayEvery

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Brian Ferneyhough

WhyEssayApproachShouldCaseSort

In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'

Keith Gessen

LongInsideCancerEssayWhale

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Jodie Foster

BelieveMoviesPersonalLivedEssay

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

Anthony Doerr

DoingNewWhateverAnythingEssay

The point of the essay is to change things.

Edward Tufte

ChangePointThingsEssay

I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

Meghan Daum

WorkLoveEssayFavoriteGenre

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

WritingTryingMoreEssayElements

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Pankaj Mishra

BirthdayFirstEssayEnglishBefore

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

Amitava Kumar

ThinkComplicatedOwnEssayOp-Ed

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

Marquis de Lafayette

TimeHorsePerfectSightEssayWhom

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donna Tartt

WorkWritingAmericanAdmireEssay

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

Eula Biss

WritingJournalismEssayPassJust

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