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I try to write an essay every time I speak.
The point of the essay is to change things.
I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.
I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.
Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.
Paradesi' remains close to my heart because Amina ages in the course of the film and I got to essay her life on screen.
I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.
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.
There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
I've mostly played a villain in Punjabi films, but with 'Mitti Waajan Mardi,' I got to essay a comical villain, which the audience loved.
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
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.
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.
When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.
Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.
I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.
To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the things that are great for an essay are unbearable in narrative writing.
I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.
I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.