Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Steven Heighton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

It was out of doing that essay that I thought I had enough to do a book,

The kids will then get to write an essay about their photo.

Stanley Hauerwas

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

I was going to go to an out-of-state university and needed funding for it. This sounded like a lot more fun than writing an essay for scholarship money.

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.