Essays Quotes - Page 7

• You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

  Phillip Lopate

  Wheels, Personal Essays

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

  Phillip Lopate

  Honesty, Conflict, Wit

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

  Phillip Lopate

  Lonely, Confusion, Darkness

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays, I remember the kind of things that fascinated me. Weird things, even, about a wizard who lived in Africa and went to China to find a lamp... Fascinating to me because they were about things remote, and almost ethereal.

  Chinua Achebe

  School, Land, People

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• I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all writing assignments. And all along I read voraciously - first in Russian and then, after we left the USSR, in English, and even Spanish.

  Vera Nazarian

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• 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).

  Christine Sneed

  Writing, Two, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Writing, Two

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• [He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.

  Scott McClanahan

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

  Susan Sontag

  Practice, Fiction, Elements

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Mexico, Want

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Writing, Cinema, Fields

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.

  DJ Spooky

  Mistake, Breathing, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

  DJ Spooky

  Writing, Names, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trying, Looks, Magazines

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.

  Phillip Lopate

  Novelists, Might, Wonderful

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

  Marty Nemko

  Believe, Emotional, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

  Eden Robinson

  Book, Knows, Ifs

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though NOT supporting me means you are supporting violence since millions of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters who would have had a chance to see my speeches, essays or advertisements continue along their violent paths unchallenged.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Philosophy, Mean, Self

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• 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.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Speak, Theme

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

  Hilary Mantel

  Perfect, Imagination, Empathy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

  Laila Lalami

  Country, Believe, Novel

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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