An encouragement to write a thesis rather than many unrelated essays

"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. A project that takes five years will accumulate those years' inventions and richnesses. Much of those years' reading will feed the work." (p. 71)

- The Writing Life, Annie Dillard, pg. 71