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“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

“The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it, providing an…

— Lisa Wingate

“I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood…

— Walter Isaacson

“Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as…

— Edith Wharton

“and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was”

— Lee Child

“The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could…

— Adalbert Stifter

“There were only two people alive who would recognize the wood in that door. One was a man living in a run-down apartment in…

— N.D. Wilson

“For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...”

— Stephen King

“I walked in and glanced around. Hotspots first, by instinct and long habit: seats facing the entrance, partially concealed corners, ambush positions. I detected…

— Barry Eisler

“The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And…

— Jonathan Gash