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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.


Frederick Pollock


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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.


Franka Potente


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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.


Manuel Puig


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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.


Joan Collins


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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.


Michael Connelly


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I don't like writing essays or theory.


Adrian Mitchell


#i #like #theory #writing

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.


Barbara Kingsolver


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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.


Barbara Kingsolver


#fiction #fiction writer #humanity #own #people

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.


Chuck Klosterman


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


Karl Kraus


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