Essay Writing Quotes

Essay Writing Quotes & Sayings

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I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head. — Neil Gaiman

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

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter

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

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

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it. — Doris McCarthy

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

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

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton — W. H. Auden

Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain De Botton

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place. — Janna Graber

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

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

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

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

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. — Ruby Bentall

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 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