A Lexical Gap

You know that feeling you get when you're looking for a word and it doesn't exist? And words seem like they will never do their subjects justice? There's a word for that-a lacuna, or lexical gap.

I've been reading a lot of memoirs and biographies lately. I'm not sure if this is one step toward the boring, domestic tastes of adults, but I have been getting a lot of insights from these books. I'm currently reading Life Itself by Roger Ebert, which is really amazing.

It's really interesting to me to read about how these well-known people came to be. And I also like to prepare my own answers to my own future interviews. There's no such thing as too much confidence, people.

I love sifting through quotes. I feel like in some way we're all quoting each other and the idea of being made of the stuff of greats (assuming that energy is constantly passing through different states) gets me through those days when it seems like all the consonants and vowels are inadequate. And I guess I really want to leave my own quotes behind as well. One of my favorite people on the planet, John Green, once said,"Sometimes our favourite quotations say more about us than the stories or people we're quoting." I feel like I have way too many quotes to contain on paper. But here are a few that I've recently found that I love. A lot. Also, this video is beautiful and makes me fall in love with writing all over again.

--J.D. Salinger, one of my favorite writers

And lastly my favorite quote, from Alexander Supertramp, whose story has affected me so much