Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image