I find inspiration down many different avenues. My creative juices are roused by movies, songs, poems, people, architecture, and novels, among many other things. This specific blog is here to pay a homage to the muse of prose.
I am inspired by a bevy of authors, and their astonishing ability to create interior spaces in which I feel that I can literally step into. Anne Rice is particularly good at describing grand old New Orleans architecture. The staunch Greek Revival home in Violin played a role equally as important as any of its main characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald has an amazing ability to describe interiors from the great Jazz Age, not only in New York, but also in Minnesota. And, perhaps one of my favorite authors, J.D. Salinger, possesses a genius of writing about interiors that captures my interest like no other author. Franny and Zooey is just one example of his great body of work which describes comfortable, well-loved, and much collected interiors. This may be due to the fact that I am truly enamored of America circa 1950's.
What novels/authors inspire you....?
6 comments:
f scott fitzgerald - images of newport and those beautiful homes :-) a historical novel by antonia fraser and how she conjures up the beauty of Versailles and 18th century france - I could go on :-)
I second Antonia Fraser!
Edith Wharton's descriptions of old New York are wonderful, especially when placed alongside her spot on portrait of New England austerity in Ethan Frome. And for me, Mrs. Dalloway is a visual feast in words.
I myself never stick on certain author and novel. Anything can be my inspiring sources, even the sound of birds. THanks. From Home Stager Toronto
This is truly inspirational. Thanks for sharing your inspirations to us.
I’ve been reading books recently. It’s not really that inspirational. But it’s a good book, I don’t want to mention because it’s so common that I know most of you knew all about it because it’s been out in the movies and stuff. So I think you get the picture the book I read is not about interior designs. Thanks anyway for giving me an idea which author and book to read.
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