Essayist Pillows

'He was a great writer'

Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Albert Camus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Carlyle

Marcel Proust

James Baldwin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paul Valery.

Salman Rushdie

D.H. Lawrence

Flannery O'Connor

George Santayana

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean about cats."

Max Beerbohm

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift.

Thomas Mann

W H Auden

Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Fyodor Sologub

J.B. Priestley.

"The only way to create a sensation as an essayist these days is to write something mean bout cats."

James Baldwin

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

No, you idiots, they don't include a "comments" section.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

"Bond James, Bond."

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Mike (The Situation) is rumored to have written the original manuscript for his best-selling memoir entirely out of bronzer.