Writing Essays Quotes

• 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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• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  Abba Eban

  Sarcastic, Believe, Mean

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• Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Winter, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

  Josh Billings

  Writing, Poverty, Wealth

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• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  Aaron Belz

  Teaching, Writing, Ideas

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

  Anne Fadiman

  Girl, Father, Writing

  1998 On her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned man-ofletters. In Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader.

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• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  Abigail Breslin

  Writing, Stuff, Kind

  "Abigail Breslin Talks JANIE JONES, NEW YEAR’S EVE, Animated ZAMBEZIA, and Other Upcoming Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Phillip Lopate

  Humility, Writing, Forever

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• I don't like writing essays or theory.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Writing, Theory, Essays

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• Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

  Per Brinch Hansen

  Art, Writing, Crystals

  Per Brinch Hansen (1996). “The search for simplicity: essays in parallel programming”, IEEE

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• 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

  Writing, Mathematics, Algebra

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• The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.379

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• I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Play, Political

  "Pulitzer-winning playwright talks gay marriage, Obama, new play". Interview With Chris Welch, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2009.

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• For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Self, Fiction

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