“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“it is often a good idea to state a thesis (an argument) which you are going to illustrate or explore in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
“Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Then one day, I just let it go, and started thinking about the essay as not trying to solve a riddle of… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“I decided to write a myth." "Have you figured out a topic? A moral conundrum?" "Yes." "What is it?" I heard Jack's… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“It will not be easy to let go of your deceased mother, who stands in her kitchen slicing potatoes and roast, who… — Jill Sisson Quinn Copy Share Image
“With abstraction, birds become numbers. Men and maniocs, too. We can look at a scene and say, ‘There are two men, three… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word "liberal," they also have to take back the word "elite." By now… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
