Bricklaying Quote by Red Smith

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

— Virginia Woolf

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

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it…

— Robin Wells

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

— Nancy Mairs

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron