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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish. — Mo

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

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

You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from. — Peter Zilahy

The Canadian-Australian mathematician Norman Wildberger has posted an essay arguing that real numbers are a joke. — Max Tegmark

The word 'essay' comes from a root meaning 'trial' or 'attempt', — Gavin Francis

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season. — Will Ferrell

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions. — Woody Allen

Climb up the ladder one step at a time, moving gracefully to the rhythm of your own heart.
- from the essay, On The Side of Time, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

This one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing — Michael Chabon

The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy. — David Foster Wallace

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? — E. M. Forster

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley

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

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do. — Kate Klise

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent. — Bruce Springsteen

Must being in love always mean being in pain? — Alain De Botton

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. — Jason Najum

Too bad relationships weren't math problems with precise answers. They were essay questions in a philosophy class, and they came down to judgement. — Lauren Blakely

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. — Aldous Huxley

Even ivory towers need central heating. — Breyten Breytenbach

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

Essay on tragedy.
(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
(3) Moliere.
(4) The spirit of revolt. — Albert Camus

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship. — Chris Abani

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

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery. — S.D. Chrostowska

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another. — Boris Johnson

I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it. — Jerry Seinfeld

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come
Bombing of the Twin Towers
From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles — Sara Niles

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long. — Wes Locher

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to — Jason Najum

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance' ... — Ransom Riggs

Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy. — Terry Pratchett

Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. — William H Gass

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 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

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

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. — David Shields

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)... — Caroline Kepnes

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. — Rivers Cuomo

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

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

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy — Theodor Adorno

Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did. — Laurie Lee

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

Never say more than is necessary. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! — Edmund Waller

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. — Constance Baker Motley

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once. — Amy Leach