It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.