I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'.
On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2000) - ISBN: 9780743211536