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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Same, Others, Write

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce

School, Tough, Write

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
Camille Paglia

Waiting, Order, Academics

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
Leslie Fiedler

Funny, Through, Happened

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

Great, Writing, Fiction

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
James Wolcott

Read, Sandwich, Papers

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver

Create, Stranger, Empathy

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco

History, Long, Lies

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes, Read, Critical

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.
Sloane Crosley

Insane, Sounds, Memoir

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
Sloane Crosley

Job, Hard, Write

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
Joan Collins

School, Writing, Older

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus

Time, Someone, Away

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

Political, Writing, Sense

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago

Rather, Write, Started

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Margaret Fuller

Mind, Through, Public

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
Michael Connelly

Art, Said, Quality

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks

Book, Old, Year

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Nicholson Baker

Good, Short, Write

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
Nicholson Baker

Best, Read, Sure

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
Chuck Klosterman

Writing, Different, Interested

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
Chuck Klosterman

Fun, Book, Writing

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

Good, Science, Writing

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds

Society, Die, Books

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

Writing, Stuff, English

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
James Meade

Treat, Year, Group

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.
Reid Hoffman

Help, Philosophy, Wanted

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

Life, Fitness, Book

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
David Herbert Donald

Write, Story, Maybe

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman

Great, Win, College

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