Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
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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.
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.
Fiction is a report from the interior.
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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.
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
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.
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