I’ll tell you why English teachers go to college for four years. So they can make stupid little kids write stupid essays on what they did all stupid summer! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Charlie Brown.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. – Barbara Kingsolver
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? – Brian Ferneyhough
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. – Dylan Thomas
I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer’s Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes – the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape. – Elise Broach
To me, having ‘material’ for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be. – Meghan Daum
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do. – Kate Klise
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what’s inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee