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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'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
— Tom Bodett
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create ... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
— Ernst Haas
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
— Anthony Bourdain
I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.
— Mike Heil
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
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
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
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
Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
— Danny Wallace
Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?
— Laurie Halse Anderson
He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.
— David Berman
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
I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
— Tina Brown
Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
— Kathryn Harrison
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
— Jill Lepore
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
— Dani Shapiro
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
— David Herbert Donald
I think - the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
— Abigail Breslin
... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ...
— Derek Walcott
Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
— E.B. White
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty
— Scott Westerfeld
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
— Jose Saramago
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
— Fran Lebowitz
I don't like writing essays or theory.
— Adrian Mitchell
Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity.
— Alain De Botton
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
— Nicholson Baker
I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
— Francis Bacon
Somewtimes I wrote random stuff in the middle of my essays, just to see if my teachers would say anything. No one ever did.
— Kami Garcia
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
— Margaret Fuller
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.
— Anne Fadiman
Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.
— Frederick Glaysher
For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
— Meghan Daum
Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book.
— Pattiann Rogers
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
Essays in Zen Buddhism
— Alan W. Watts
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
— Camille Paglia
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
— Geoff Dyer
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
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
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
— James Wolcott
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.
— Clive James
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
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
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
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
— Francis Bacon
The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.
— Sara Levine
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
— Susan Straight
Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.
— Rebecca Solnit
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
— Michel De Montaigne
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
— Marilynne Robinson
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.
— Tobias Wolff
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays.
— Oliver Sacks
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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
[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
Only where there is life can there be home.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
— Emilia Clarke
Youth must triumph ... now. Afterwards, it will be life.
— Jose Garcia Villa
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population.
— Alan Lightman
