Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

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