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John D'Agata quotes: You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

John D'Agata quotes: The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

John D'Agata quotes: In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

John D'Agata quotes: What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank?

What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank?

John D'Agata quotes: An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

John D'Agata quotes: I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

John D'Agata quotes: It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

John D'Agata quotes: I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

John D'Agata quotes: As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

John D'Agata quotes: Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

John D'Agata quotes: Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

John D'Agata quotes: A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

John D'Agata quotes: In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

John D'Agata quotes: I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example.

I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example.

John D'Agata quotes: The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.

The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.

John D'Agata quotes: If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

John D'Agata quotes: Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.