Quotes of: Essay Keyword

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 it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

Sloane Crosley

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.

Omnibuses: An American Essay

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Where I Live: Selected Essays

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Franka Potente

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

David Rakoff

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Stanley Hauerwas

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Umberto Eco

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

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

Frederick Pollock

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

Danny Wallace

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

James Meade

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

James Wolcott

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Jill Lepore

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Sharon Olds

Danny Vinyard: [writing the beginning of the essay] People look at me and see my brother.

American History X

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different sche...

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe ...

Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride...

An Essay on Man