I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should. Chris Abani
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. Michael Connelly
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. Tom Bodett
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. Annie Dillard