Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Nicholson Baker
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
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... →
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that... →
Zadie Smith
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
Tom Bodett
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin
I don't like writing essays or theory.
Adrian Mitchell