Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally… — Herbert A. Wise 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
“I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer.… — Patricia Highsmith 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
“The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend: The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“If I had kept a journal, I could go back through it and check up on what memory reports plausibly but not… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship]… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
“You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognised by clearing away "prejudice" or burrowing down… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous 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
“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
“I eat an egg for my supper and drink Guinness with it and read Brontë and Hardy, Dante and Keats, Henry James… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don't want to swagger,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. — Charlotte Curtis Copy Share Image
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice… — Agnieszka Holland Copy Share Image
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Quote of the day: Quote of the day: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give… — Henry James 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
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
![“[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future': 'The figured tapestry, the long arras that hides him, is always there ... May it not then be but…” quote by James Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/087/james-shapiro-62910_authorship_henry-james-essay-s-closing-lines-can-ei_2514746.jpg)
![“There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I can only hint at it because it's difficult to formulate or describe. It has something to do with the lines: 'As I went over the water/the water went over me' [from As I Went over the Water]…” quote by Jonathan Cott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg)
![“[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.” quote by Agnieszka Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ae/agnieszka-holland-70054_austen_henry-james-is-much-more-complex-than-ja_2734818.jpg)
![“Quote of the day: Quote of the day: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. [info][add][mail][note] Henry James (1843 - 1916)” quote by Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fba/henry-james-417_art_quote-of-the-day-quote-of-the-day-we-wor_2126649.jpg)
