A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. Votes: 3
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. Votes: 3
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover. Votes: 3
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. Votes: 3
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy. Votes: 3
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. Votes: 1
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate. Votes: 1
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. Votes: 1
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. Votes: 0
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. Votes: 0
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. Votes: 0
Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve. Votes: 0
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. Votes: 0
There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. Votes: 4 Dylan Thomas
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. Votes: 6 William H. Gass