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I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because it has a form - it has a limited reach. Whereas the thought called "freedom" is free as an act of thought. It's so free that even to its thinker it seems to have no author.

The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people.

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.