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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

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.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.