I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just…

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied…

— Paul Di Filippo

The point of the essay is to change things.

— Edward Tufte

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

— Barbara Greene

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

— John D'Agata

“Essay on tragedy. (1) The silence of Prometheus. (2) The Elizabethans. (3) Moliere. (4) The spirit of revolt.”

— Albert Camus

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

— Amit Kalantri

“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush recently suggested…

— Bill Maher

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,…

— Cynthia Ozick

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

— Phillip Lopate

“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I didn’t know.…

— Alice Jamieson

“The merit of Locke 's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency. . . He should have widened the title…

— Alfred North Whitehead