“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James Copy Share Image
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience—or rather to become itself… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
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