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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 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
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
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
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
— Don DeLillo
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
[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
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
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
I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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
Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity.
— Alain De Botton
The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
— Marilynne Robinson
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
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
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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
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
Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.
— Clive James
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
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
If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions.
— Michel De Montaigne
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
— Donald Hall
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
— Richard Armour
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
— Barbara Conelli
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
— Geoff Dyer
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
— Camille Paglia
Essays in Zen Buddhism
— Alan W. Watts
