Essayistic Quotes

#1. I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

Ann Friedman

#2. Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.

John D'Agata

#3. I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

Paul Beatty

#4. I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Sarah Hall

#5. The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

George R R Martin

#6. I am insecure ... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

Cameron Russell

#7. We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. It's called the principle of favorability. Or beginner's luck.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.

Agatha Christie

#9. In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

Andrew Stanton

#10. My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.

Dora J. Arod

#11. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

#12. An aging beau. He has probably tried to screw half his staff and doubtless attributes to his charm the few successes that are simply statistical anomalies.

Pierre Lemaitre