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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.
As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
'Bad Girl,' the Mollywood flick to be helmed by filmmaker Shajiyem wherein I essay the role of a super model, will be released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
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.
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.
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.
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.
I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.
I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.
Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
I did 'Hawa' to understand what ghosts and the supernatural are all about. I don't believe in them and wondered how I could essay a part in a project I don't necessarily understand.
When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.
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.
If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'
Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.
You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.
You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that's much longer, that's a long essay or that's a video.
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.
I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.
I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.
I've mostly played a villain in Punjabi films, but with 'Mitti Waajan Mardi,' I got to essay a comical villain, which the audience loved.
I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.
Paradesi' remains close to my heart because Amina ages in the course of the film and I got to essay her life on screen.
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.