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Essayist Quotes

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist Picture Quote #1

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective Picture Quote #1

I’m a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist Picture Quote #1

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct Picture Quote #1

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody Picture Quote #1

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination Picture Quote #1

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Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person Picture Quote #1

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn’t know how to write essays Picture Quote #1

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas Picture Quote #1

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I’d been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining Picture Quote #1

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore Picture Quote #1

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil’s advocate, enthusiast Picture Quote #1

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I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school Picture Quote #1

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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist (Essayist Quotes) The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective (Essayist Quotes) I’m a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist (Essayist Quotes) The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct (Essayist Quotes) Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody (Essayist Quotes) Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination (Essayist Quotes) Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person (Essayist Quotes) In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn’t know how to write essays (Essayist Quotes) I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas (Essayist Quotes) It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I’d been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining. (Essayist Quotes) Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore. (Essayist Quotes) The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil’s advocate, enthusiast. (Essayist Quotes) I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school. (Essayist Quotes)