Essayists Quotes
Essayists Quote of the day
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.
The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.
