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Continue to ChatWhat I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material has to be presented in a processed way. I'm just not interested in writing, "Hey, this is what happened to me today." You get to a place that has very little to do with your personal experience and talks about some larger idea or something in the culture. I don't think you can get to that unless you have had a lot of time to gestate and maybe if I was taking a lot of notes while stuff was going on, I wouldn't be able to get to that place as easily. - Meghan Daum from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/what-i-think-is-important-about-essayists-about-the-essay-as-opposed-to-a-lot-of-personal-writing-is-that-the