“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
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
“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude… — Clarence Budington Kelland 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
“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
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest… — Mark Helprin 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
I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort… — Garth Greenwell 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
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
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
“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
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
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
