96 Quotes About Essayist

The task of writing is the quintessential spiritual act because it tests a person’s commitment to living a meaningful life. Writing this scroll is a self-prescribed, shamanistic act of spiritual faith.

Writing is a method to stanch a person’s deepest lacerations.

Writers, similar to painters, use both darkness and lightness, to create a telling canvass sharing with future generations their struggles realizing the fundamental value of human existence. Duplicating the tried and true techniques of a portrait painter, I commence this portrayal of a deeply conflicted human being with a wash of black, because as Leonardo Da Vinci noted, nature shrouds all things in dark except as exposed by rays of light.

Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe the external world, think abstractedly, and organize the material that structures the content of their mind.

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.