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Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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




Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.




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

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.




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

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



Essays Quotes: "All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge."

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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




Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



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

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "[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."

[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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



Essays Quotes: "The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy"

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger."

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.



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

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



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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



Essays Quotes: "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?"

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?



Essays Quotes: "I don't like writing essays or theory."

I don't like writing essays or theory.



Essays Quotes: "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.'"

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.'



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

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



Essays Quotes: "I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff."

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



Essays Quotes: "I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart."

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



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

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



Essays Quotes: "Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change."

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



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

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



Essays Quotes: "Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable"

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



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

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



Essays Quotes: "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 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.



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

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



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.



Essays Quotes: "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."

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.