Essayist Quotes
- H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956
- Hamilton Wright Mabie 1846 - 1916
- Hamlin Garland 1860 - 1940
- Hannah Arendt 1906 - 1975
- Hannah More 1745 - 1833
- Harriet Martineau 1802 - 1876
- Harry Crews 1935 - 2012
- Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862
- Hu Shih 1891 - 1962
- J. M. Coetzee 1940 -
- J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 - 1973
- Jack London 1876 - 1916
- Jamaica Kincaid 1949 -
- James Ellroy 1948 -
- James Hogg 1770 - 1835
- Jami Attenberg 1971 -
- Jane Hirshfield 1953 -
- Jean Genet 1910 - 1986
- Jean Giraudoux 1882 - 1944
- Jean Hanff Korelitz 1961 -
- Jerry Pournelle 1933 - 2017
- John B. Keane 1928 - 2002
- John Burroughs 1837 - 1921
- John Crowe Ransom 1888 - 1974
- John D'Agata 1975 -
- John Gardner 1933 - 1982
- John Perry Barlow 1947 - 2018
- John Robert Seeley 1834 - 1895
- John Shelton Reed 1942 -
- Jonathan Franzen 1959 -
- Jonathan Lethem 1964 -
- Jonathan Swift 0 -
- Jones Very 1813 - 1880
- Jorge Luis Borges 1899 - 1986
- Jose Bergamin 1895 - 1983
- Jose Marti 1853 - 1895
- Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883 - 1955
- Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719
- Joseph Brodsky 1940 - 1996
- Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824