Essayist Quotes
- A. C. Benson 1862 - 1925
- A. R. Ammons 1926 - 2001
- Abel Hermant 1862 - 1950
- Abraham Cowley 1618 - 1667
- Abraham Polonsky 1910 - 1999
- Adam Ferguson 1723 - 1816
- Adam Gopnik 1956 -
- Adolf Bastian 1826 - 1905
- Adrienne Rich 1929 - 2012
- Agnes Repplier 1855 - 1950
- Ahad Ha'am 1856 - 1927
- Al Alvarez 1929 - 2019
- Albert Memmi 1920 - 2020
- Albert Murray 1916 - 2013
- Alberto Manguel 1948 -
- Alejandro Jodorowsky 1929 -
- Alejo Carpentier 1904 - 1980
- Aleksandar Hemon 1964 -
- Alfred Doblin 1878 - 1957
- Alice Thomas Ellis 1932 - 2005
- Allan Gurganus 1947 -
- Allen Tate 1899 - 1979
- Amrita Pritam 1919 - 2005
- Amy Levy 1861 - 1889
- Ana Castillo 1953 -
- Anais Nin 1903 - 1977
- Andrei Codrescu 1946 -
- Andrew Nelson Lytle 1902 - 1995
- Anna Letitia Barbauld 1743 - 1825
- Anne Carson 1950 -
- Anne Enright 1962 -
- Anne Fadiman 1953 -
- Antonin Artaud 1896 - 1948
- Ariel Dorfman 1942 -
- Arthur Miller 1915 - 2005
- August Strindberg 1849 - 1912
- Ayelet Waldman 1964 -
- B. R. Hayden 1913 - 1980
- B. W. Powe 1955 -
- Babasaheb 1891 - 1956