Essay Quotes
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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On The Great Gatsby: Fifteen-year-olds can really get behind an essay on what green light means, which is good, because they sure as heck won't relate to any of the characters, who are all huge jerks with enough money to be wasted most of the time on top of being miserable.
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You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
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The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.
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Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.
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If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
