A mind so fine no thought could pass through it

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but…

— Henry James

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. "Please make…

— Robert W. Service

“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.…

— Maggie Nelson

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing…

— Hamish Bowles

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with…

— H.G. Wells

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

— H. G. Wells

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish…

— Cynthia Ozick

I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and…

— Emma Tennant

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

— Ray Bradbury

“Hostel is basically a Henry James novel with severed fingers, screaming, and nudity.   The”

— Noah Berlatsky

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed…

— Donald Hall

“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but his point…

— John Gardner