Essays And Stories Quotes

#1. I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Franka Potente

#2. The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays ... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

Ray Bradbury

#3. 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.

Sam Abell

#4. I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

Susan Straight

#5. Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.

Maria Shriver

#6. If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

James A. Owen

#7. Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Jill Lepore

#8. He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.

Beth Cato

#9. It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Annie Dillard

#10. The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

George Carlin

#11. I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#12. I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

#13. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

Michael Dirda

#16. A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

Tom Stoppard

#17. Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.

Yasmin Mogahed

#18. I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Paul Theroux

#19. Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.

T. Scott McLeod

#20. For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

Shelley Berkley

#21. With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Dougray Scott

#22. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. I began writing early - very, very early ... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Wole Soyinka

#24. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Laura Esquivel

#25. I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.

Box Brown

#26. Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Sylvia Earle