Famous quotes containing the words house and/or writers:
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life ... for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,—some of its virus mingled with my blood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)