“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row… — Susan Hill 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
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin 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
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was… — David Bayles 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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' — Tina Brown 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
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky… — Barbara Wright Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather 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
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
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