I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. — Virginia Woolf 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
“Hostel is basically a Henry James novel with severed fingers, screaming, and nudity. The” — Noah Berlatsky 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
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
“At his house I often met Henry James. I liked to watch that ingenious spider weaving his webs, but to me he… — Jane Ellen Harrison 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
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“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
“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has… — Diane Setterfield 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
“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
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote 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
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein 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
“I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you… — Henry James 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
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
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 distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin 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
[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 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
“She wished to say everything; she was afraid he might die before she had done so.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
“Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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