Bricklaying Quotes

• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

  William Faulkner

  Technique, Surgery, Ifs

  "William Faulkner, El arte de la ficción nº 12". Entrevista con Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• El buen artista cree que nadie es lo bastante bueno para darle consejos. Tiene una vanidad suprema. Por mucho que admire al viejo escritor, quiere ganarle.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Artist, Vanity

  "William Faulkner, El arte de la ficción nº 12". Entrevista con Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Errors, People

  "William Faulkner, El arte de la ficción nº 12". Entrevista con Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Que el escritor se dedique a la cirugía o a la albañilería si le interesa la técnica. No hay una forma mecánica de escribir, ni un atajo. El joven escritor sería un tonto si siguiera una teoría. Enséñate a ti mismo con tus propios errores; la gente sólo aprende con el error. El buen artista cree que nadie es lo bastante bueno para darle consejos. Tiene una vanidad suprema. Por mucho que admire al viejo escritor, quiere ganarle.

  William Faulkner

  Error, Creer, Escribir

  "William Faulkner, El arte de la ficción nº 12". Entrevista con Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

  F. R. Leavis

  Paradise, Lost, Strikes

  "Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry". Book by F. R. Leavis, 1936.

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

  Red Smith

  Writing, Bricks, Mortar

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• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• 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 you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Wall, Writing, Down And

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