Essays – Quotes

Decide for yourself what

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create… facts, essays, poems – do you want to speak or to sing? Ernst Haas

When an alluring woman comes in at the door, warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, discretion may be found up the chimney. It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly. Ernest Bramah

Drama school is fundamentally

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn’t write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. Emilia Clarke

I haven\\’t written poetry

I haven’t written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to finish, so hard to find the exact word to make it shine. In honor of my youth I will write a poem to finish this essay. It is spring in … Read more

the wrongs of society

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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think I\\’ve been

I think I’ve been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don’t think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay – once the book was in production – I decided to … Read more

I\\’ve been thinking a

I’ve been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not a memoir. One reason is the great love of novels that I keep droning on about. I’ve always loved reading novels. I’ve wanted to write novels since I was little. I started my … Read more

Part of flirting is

Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure – to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn’t put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger – and that can be so exciting. Elif … Read more

I\\’m a privileged person,

I’m a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I’m one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don’t see the … Read more

The point of the

The point of the essay is to change things. Edward Tufte