Books Quote by J. Milton Hayes

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

— Bernard Berenson

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

— Anonymous

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else…

— Jodi Picoult

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself…

— Karin Tidbeck

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

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