Writing Essays Quotes

Writing Essays Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

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.