Geoff Dyer

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

English Writer

Wole Soyinka

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Nigerian Dramatist

Nick Hornby

An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.

Ronald Frame

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

British Novelist

Radhika Pandit

Dubbing is an important part of acting, and I feel complete only when it's my voice that is heard. Having essayed the character, I know the kinds of emotions that are required for each scene.

Indian Actress

Rupi Kaur

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Canadian Poet

Javed Jaffrey

I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.

Indian Actor

Zawe Ashton

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

English Actress

Raashi Khanna

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

Pankaj Kapur

I have loved playing every character that I essayed.

Essays are focused on a specific topic or argument and explore it in depth.

Subject Specific

Although typically short, essay length can vary based on educational levels and subjects.

Length Variation

Essays have a clear structure: introduction, body, and conclusion.

Structured Content

As a verb, 'essay' implies a serious attempt or effort, often at something new or challenging.

Attempt Significance

Using 'essay' as a verb has an old-fashioned tone and is less common in modern usage.

Historic Flavor

In a literary sense, 'essay' can refer to experimental attempts in writing or other arts.

Literary Ventures

Metaphorically, 'essay' may describe embarking on a new life journey or endeavor.

Journey Undertaking

 After high school, he began writing novels and essays while taking a series of odd jobs. But the issues that had driven him away from the Church were still inescapable in his daily life. Constantly confronted with racism and homophobia, he was angry and disillusioned, and yearned for a less restricted life.

Notes of a native son:...

 Again fire equals light equals humility, people coming from the banks to watch it. And then just downstream, you can come here to pray and round the corner, people come to die. All this work and a bunch of essays I wrote were published on the National Geographic magazine 'Proof' blog recently.

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 If you begin writing a literary analysis with the introduction, you may be discouraged. Here's a tip for writing a great Write it last, and write your thesis first. Figure out what you want to analyze before you actually analyze it. Your thesis is the foundation for the rest of your essay,

The power of a great...

 and he wrote an essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Somehow, this mathematics, which is rooted in the real world in some sense -- we learn to count, measure, everyone would do that -- and then it flourishes on its own. But so often it comes back to save the day.

The mathematician who...

 was to shut down opposing viewpoints through epically worded video essays and comments and posts, but I soon learned those were only cheered on by the people who already agreed with me. Sometimes -- bless you. Sometimes, the most subversive thing you could do -- yeah, clap for him.

Empathy Is Not...

 might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do. So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay

How to have better...

 that think happiness is not at all interesting. I just wrote an essay on happiness, and there was a controversy. And someone wrote an article saying, "Don't impose on us the dirty work of happiness." "We don't care about being happy. We need to live with passion.

The habits of happiness...

 maturity due to lack of courage lack of courage to think for yourself as opposed to letting other people think for you now times concern wasn't just self-reliance as he goes on in the essay to make clear what do you really wanted

How do we reason for a...

 Amy's essay caused me to experience grief in a public way. Many of the readers who reached out to me wrote beautiful words of reflection. The scope of Amy's impact was deeper and richer than even us and her family knew.

The journey through loss...

 how could we expect them to be otherwise? Next, I tried to teach them essay writing. But that turned out to be nearly impossible. Essays are about coming up with one's own thesis,