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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up — Lenny Bruce

For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty. — Federico Mangahas

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me. — Sandra Cisneros

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote. — Joseph Epstein

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings

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

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

Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things? — Laurie Halse Anderson

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. — Sebastian Coe

I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that. — Kate Christensen

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt

Essays in Zen Buddhism — Alan W. Watts

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott

If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions. — Michel De Montaigne

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman

Youth must triumph ... now. Afterwards, it will be life. — Jose Garcia Villa

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. — Emilia Clarke

Only where there is life can there be home. — Joyce Carol Oates

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves. — Stephen Fry

[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. — Michael Connelly

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice. — Barry Parham

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life. — Steven Heighton

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy! — Barbara Conelli

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. — Richard Armour

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

I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects. — Meghan Daum

Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human. — Matthew Thomas

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

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays. — Donald Hall

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel. — Kathleen Rooney

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. — Clive James

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen