“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
“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
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway 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
“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
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and… — Emma Tennant 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
“Hostel is basically a Henry James novel with severed fingers, screaming, and nudity. The” — Noah Berlatsky Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but… — John Gardner 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
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
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
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams 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
...expatriated Americans, evenHenry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve 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
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