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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

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.

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.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

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.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

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

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.