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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Beautiful Cannot Essay Fiction First Forms Loves Lyrical Much Other Poetry Really

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It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Actually Complicated Essay Finish Forever Like Love Me Relationship Something Takes

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In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Disease Essay Got Had High High School Prize School Sure Through Tuberculosis Won Writing

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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: About Absolutely Am Back Essay Essays Far Fiction Fiction Writer Height Movement Phrase Poet Reject Woman Write Writer Wrote I Am

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In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Before Discovery Down Essay Fiction Going Intellectual Journey Know Last Make Out Outcome Paragraph Pleasure Pocket Psychological Rarely Set Sometimes Very Where Write You Your

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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Educational Essay Free Genuine Imagination Information Long Long Run Mind Movement Need Opinion Play Rarely Run Thing Trust Use

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If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Driven Effort Essay Genuine Happenstance Linked More Motive Opportunity Propaganda Than Tract Will

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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

~Dan Millman

Topics: Academic Actually After Anymore Choose College Could Essay Going Got Interested Kind Last Liked Me More Nobody Papers Realized Tell Turned Wanted Whatever Would Write Writing

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I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

~David Shields

Topics: Anyone Essay Idea Investigation Life Love Really

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I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.

~David Shields

Topics: Against Beating Began Call Cause Constantly Essay Exciting Fiction Fiction Writer Genre Had Head Literary Longer Lyric Me Nonfiction Novels Poetic Practicing Teaching Three Towards Wall Want Whatever Work Writer Written You

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