Covered Quote by Lauren Oliver

Now the writing's on a wall

— Prodigy

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

— Virginia Woolf

“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless reminiscences. They're…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

— Dan Rather

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

— Terry McMillan

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

— Lauren Groff

There's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

— Daniel Dumile

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

— Ross Macdonald

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

— Eduardo Galeano

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

— Red Smith