“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
“The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind,… — Amy Leach Copy Share Image
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've… — Rae Morris Copy Share Image
“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“Essay on tragedy. (1) The silence of Prometheus. (2) The Elizabethans. (3) Moliere. (4) The spirit of revolt.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“And these years later, when I think of that essay, what I remember most is not the moment I saw my work… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“After all, this was the place where I’d had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my… — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
In 2014, as a Christmas gift, I wrote an essay for my husband, about our story. Writing that showed me there was… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“My essay had evolved into thinking about fucking. You could be raped a thousand times and still be a virgin. I was… — Tamara Faith Berger Copy Share Image
“of an essay. You will have lots of notes on the subject – see the ICS Study Skills Guide to Note-Making for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting… — Patricia McKillip Copy Share Image
