“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Henry James rhymed Fellowship with the gesture of biting a neglected apple, and Ovid a scarlet curtain with the skin of Atalanta.” — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
...expatriated Americans, evenHenry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
“Peter Kemp observed that ‘Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James’s bowels.’ As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“the modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Well then, we went and had tea with Henry James today…and Henry James fixed me with his staring blank eye—it is like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at… — 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… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an… — Christopher T. Garry Copy Share Image
“After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“The city was a real city, shifty and sexual. I was lightly jostled by small herds of flushed young sailors looking for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile. And I relaxed. I knew . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One also, in our milieu, simply didn't meet enough Americans to form an opinion. And when one did—this was in the days… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed.… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher,… — Alice James Books Copy Share Image
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
