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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

The point of the essay is to change things.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.