Essays Quotes - Page 17

• A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

  Alan Ryan

  Book, Two, People

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Art, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

  Chris Abani

  Beautiful, First Love, Fiction

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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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

  Book, Writing, Germany

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

  Wole Soyinka

  Art, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jan 02, 2015

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• You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Book, Writing, Voice

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbgo.org. September 15, 2017.

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• I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

  Paul Beatty

  Thinking, Together, Fundamentals

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

  Tom Bissell

  Believe, Magic, Stories

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• [John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Writing, Criticism, United States

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

  John Steakley

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Astrology

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• I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

  Frederick Busch

  Reading, Writing, Nonfiction

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Book, Fiction, Pops

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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• [George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Interesting, Worldview

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

  Amos Oz

  Black And White, Israel, Europe

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• [My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

  Lily Collins

  Girl, Book, Today

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humble, Night, Knitting

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• The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

  Theodor Adorno

  Law, Form, Heresy

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