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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Convince Essays Ever Just Myself Personal Read Them Will Write I Write

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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Essays Favorite Gravitate Like Nor Novels Personal Read Reader Really Short Short Story Story Tend Them Too Write Writer Writing

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Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

~Danny Wallace

Topics: Always Average Bit Essays Hard How Just Matter Seemed Thing Tried I Tried

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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

~David Herbert Donald

Topics: Essays Maybe Memoir Mystery Perhaps Some Story Will Write

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I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Aspire Been Begin End Essays Familiar Hope Me Personal Say Successful Universal Write

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For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

~Diablo Cody

Topics: Essays Fiction Great Great Way Me Prose Way Writing

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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

~Diane Cilento

Topics: Algebra Essays Good Loved Mathematics Never Science Sort Sure Very Writing

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I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Baseball Been Books Cared Certainly Essays Had Looked Magazine Man Many Myself Needing Poetry Prose Rich Rich Man Some Support Them Things Two Wanted Would Write Written

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Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

~Donald Hall

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I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Articles Bad Columns Essays First Go Handle How Poems Prose Really School Started Stuff Taught Tried Write Writing Wrote You

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