Phillip Lopate Quotes About Essays

Quotes about: Essays

• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

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  Humility, Writing, Forever

• 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.

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  Novelists, Might, Wonderful

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

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  Lonely, Confusion, Darkness

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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.

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  Honesty, Conflict, Wit

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

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  Wheels, Essays, Personal Essays

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• Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

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  Conversation, Dilemma, Essays

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• Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.

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  Contradictory, Essays, Ambivalent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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