A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.” — Mark Twain 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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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
“ I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the… — Henry ja 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
[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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which… — T.S. Eliot 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
“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
“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.” quote by H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/h-g-wells-1122_altars_a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church_158550.png)
![“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/t-s-eliot-2-1761_henry-james_james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-t_2308204.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/i/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg)
