I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and…

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,…

— Emilia Clarke

I don't like haunted houses or anything like that.

— Joe Burrow

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or…

— John Fowles

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

My room may be a mess but I know everything where some things are.

— Ewshy

“A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose name are still well-known: Bold Gryffindor…

— JK Rowling

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

— Sarah Waters

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

— Anthony Lewis

My main home is in Morecambe Bay on a little island called Roa, where there are 13 houses, a lifeboat station, a boat club…

— Dave Myers

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new…

— Alvar Aalto

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that…

— Jay McInerney

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

— Ted Baillieu

“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels. And don't…

— Marguerite Duras