#essays

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. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#essays #exception #i #interesting #me

The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me. ↗

— Sara Levine

#change

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. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#essays #good #i #loved #mathematics

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. ↗

— James Wolcott

#high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

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

#class #composition #english #essays #first

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

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

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

#basically #book #book writing #conscious #entertaining

Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice. ↗

— Barry Parham

#humor #humor