A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
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I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
Novel writing wrecks homes.
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
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.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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