The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
Richard RodríguezTag: life writing drama essay private public richard-rodriguez
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
E.M. ForsterTag: advice writing fiction essay e-m-forster
Even ivory towers need central heating.
Breyten BreytenbachTag: poetry satire essay new-york-times-review
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur MillerTag: society news culture essay commentary
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational philosophy social-commentary self-reliance nonfiction essay lecture transcendentalism
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
Maureen JohnsonNever say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley SheridanMemoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.
Patricia HamplTag: essay
[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!
Anne CarsonTag: love poetry essay airplanes shopping
Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.
Wes LocherTag: humor funny comedy essay anecdote
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