"What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity."

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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

— Cynthia Ozick