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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

~Aaron Lazar

Topics: Analysis Critical English English Teacher Essays Great High High School How Introduced Love Me Mine Novels Now Painful Poetry School Shakespeare Skill Taught Teacher Then Write Writing

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

~Abigail Breslin

Topics: English Essays Kind Like Stuff Writing

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I don't like writing essays or theory.

~Adrian Mitchell

Topics: Essays Like Theory Writing

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For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Actually Became Because Covered Essays Events Great Inspired Journalism Me Muse Poetry Realized Shy Then Towards Used Were

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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

Topics: Ambitious Big Book Essays Fit Learn Long Makes Many More Narrative Nonfiction Novel Possess Pour Project Sense Stories Than Write You

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Create Empathy Essays Fiction Stranger Theoretical

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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Career Dance Essays Even Hand He His Life Lincoln Love Love Life Painter Satirical Scenario Tried Writer

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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

Topics: Basically Been Comics Dies Doing Essays Everything Factual Got Had Ideas Like Me Non-Fiction Really Religion Responding Series Stories Stuff Telling Via Working

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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Academics Am Classes Collected Day Essays For The Day James Order Waiting I Am

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I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Behavioral Collection Economics Essays Foundation His Interesting Inventive Love Most Rational Real Richard Some I Love

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