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Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them Picture Quote #1

Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth Picture Quote #1

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then Picture Quote #1

I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school Picture Quote #1

For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science Picture Quote #1

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow Picture Quote #1

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If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They’re all stand alone essays Picture Quote #1

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays Picture Quote #1

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas Picture Quote #1

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali’s style Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing Picture Quote #1

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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and ‘The Bone Season’ in the evenings Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different Picture Quote #1

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone’s either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays Picture Quote #1

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now Picture Quote #1

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation Picture Quote #1

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For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time Picture Quote #1

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter Picture Quote #1

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas Picture Quote #1

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air Picture Quote #1

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas Picture Quote #1

The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science Picture Quote #1

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial Picture Quote #1

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation Picture Quote #1

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Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. (Essays Quotes) Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth. (Essays Quotes) I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. (Essays Quotes) I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school. (Essays Quotes) For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science (Essays Quotes) Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. (Essays Quotes) If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They’re all stand alone essays. (Essays Quotes) My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays. (Essays Quotes) Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. (Essays Quotes) My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali’s style. (Essays Quotes) 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. (Essays Quotes) While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. (Essays Quotes) I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and ‘The Bone Season’ in the evenings. (Essays Quotes) 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. (Essays Quotes) I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different. (Essays Quotes) Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone’s either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays. (Essays Quotes) In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. (Essays Quotes) I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. (Essays Quotes) For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time (Essays Quotes) In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter. (Essays Quotes) Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays (Essays Quotes) 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 (Essays Quotes) 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 (Essays Quotes) 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 (Essays Quotes) I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas (Essays Quotes) There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air (Essays Quotes) Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas (Essays Quotes) The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science (Essays Quotes) If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial (Essays Quotes) I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation (Essays Quotes)

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