Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
— Pawan MishraIf where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.
— Amit KalantriFail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
— Amit KalantriFirst time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.
— Carla H. KruegerLet someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.
— Amit KalantriThe good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.
— Pawan MishraIf she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.
— Amit KalantriWhat I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being able to write out your thoughts fluently are very great. For one thing, when you are used to writing them out, they present themselves, one after another. When you are not used to writing them out, they mill around among themselves usually and you see nothing but heads and tails of them when you sit down to get them on paper. I know from my own experience that the first two or three hours of every exam I ever took were spent simply getting my pen warmed up, and by then it was too late.
— Ted HughesArt is the overflow of emotion into action.
— Brian RaifShe was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
— Robert M. Pirsig