Describing Quote by Bernard Berenson

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

— J. Milton Hayes

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

— Plato

“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in…

— Jane Austen

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings.…

— John Ciardi

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

— Steven Amsterdam

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing…

— Malcolm Forbes

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

— Mason Cooley

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

— Gershon Legman

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil