Essayist Quotes
- Quinn Norton 1973 -
- Ralph Ellison 1914 - 1994
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
- Reynolds Price 1933 - 2011
- Rita Dove 1952 -
- Roberto Bolano 1953 - 2003
- Salman Rushdie 1947 -
- Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784
- Susan Isaacs 1943 -
- Svetlana Alexievich 1948 -
- T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
- Tao Lin 1983 -
- Taslima Nasrin 1962 -
- Tatyana Tolstaya 1951 -
- Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881
- Thomas Lynch 1948 -
- Thomas Mallon 1951 -
- V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018
- Vaclav Havel 1936 - 2011
- Vance Bourjaily 1922 - 2010
- Vance Palmer 1885 - 1959
- Vernon Lee 1856 - 1935
- Victor Cherbuliez 1829 - 1899
- Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885
- W. S. Di Piero 1945 -
- Wallace Shawn 1943 -
- Wallace Thurman 1902 - 1934
- Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892
- Walter Bagehot 1826 - 1877
- Walter Benjamin 1892 - 1940
- Walter Kirn 1962 -
- Walter Pater 1839 - 1894
- Wang Anyi 1954 -
- Washington Irving 1783 - 1859
- Wendy C. Ortiz 1973 -
- Wilfrid Sheed 1930 - 2011
- William Deresiewicz 1964 -
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1838 - 1903
- William H. Gass 1924 - 2017
- William Hazlitt 1778 - 1830