--- title: "129 Henry james Quotes by 109 authors" description: "Browse 129 Henry james quotes by 109 authors. Discover the best Henry james sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/anonymous-1_henry-james_a-mind-so-fine-no-thought-could-pass-thr_2761055.jpg" --- > [A mind so fine no thought could pass through it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-mind-so-fine-no-thought-could-pass-through-it/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/anonymous-1_henry-james_a-mind-so-fine-no-thought-could-pass-thr_2761055.jpg) > [I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-waters/i-ve-never-managed-to-get-very-far-with-henry-james/) [Sarah Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-waters/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e5/sarah-waters-2758_far_i-ve-never-managed-to-get-very-far-with_1561175.png) > [And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-maccaig/and-it-s-impossible-for-me-to-read-henry-james/) [Norman MacCaig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-maccaig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/norman-maccaig-15658_books_and-it-s-impossible-for-me-to-read-henry_310415.png) > [Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/mr-henry-james-writes-fiction-as-if-it-were-a-painful-duty/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/oscar-wilde-16_duty_mr-henry-james-writes-fiction-as-if-it-w_1458028.jpg) > [Henry James chews more than he bites off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/henry-james-chews-more-than-he-bites-off/) [Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a04/henry-adams-1542_bites_henry-james-chews-more-than-he-bites-off_327335.png) > [A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tina-brown/a-trio-of-reputations-lie-at-the-heart-of-henry-james-s-the-portrait/) [Tina Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tina-brown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/tina-brown-2434_heart_a-trio-of-reputations-lie-at-the-heart-o_1158876.png) > [“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/on-a-book-by-henry-james-once-you-put-it-down-you-simply-can-t-pick/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/mark-twain-22_bad-reviews_on-a-book-by-henry-james-once-you-put-it_1589751.png) > [Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-faulkner/henry-james-was-one-of-the-nicest-old-ladies-i-ever-met/) [William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-faulkner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c7/william-faulkner-306_henry-james_henry-james-was-one-of-the-nicest-old-la_391763.png) > [I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-antin/i-can-manage-a-prose-format-as-long-as-i-keep-closer-to-laurence/) [David Antin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-antin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13f/david-antin-16464_format_i-can-manage-a-prose-format-as-long-as-i_637014.png) > [I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-greenblatt/i-was-in-venice-teaching-so-i-reread-henry-james-s-the-wings-of-the/) [Stephen Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-greenblatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a31/stephen-greenblatt-10786_dove_i-was-in-venice-teaching-so-i-reread-hen_1683672.jpg) > [“At his house I often met Henry James. I liked to watch that ingenious spider weaving his webs, but to me he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-ellen-harrison/at-his-house-i-often-met-henry-james-i-liked-to-watch-that-ingenious/) [Jane Ellen Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-ellen-harrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/jane-ellen-harrison-30732_henry-james_at-his-house-i-often-met-henry-james-i-l_1919252.jpg) > [I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-tennant/i-didn-t-go-to-university-i-hardly-went-to-school-but-i-grew-up-among/) [Emma Tennant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-tennant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/emma-tennant-48256_felt_i-didn-t-go-to-university-i-hardly-went_172874.jpg) > [Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adams/henry-james-proposed-asking-of-art-three-modest-and-appropriate/) [Robert Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/robert-adams-4362_appropriate_henry-james-proposed-asking-of-art-three_383257.png) > [“I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-want-to-see-what-life-makes-of-you-one-thing-is-certain-it-can-t/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c90/henry-james-417_classic_i-want-to-see-what-life-makes-of-you-one_1595249.png) > [The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-work-of-henry-james-has-always-seemed-divisible-by-a-simple/) [Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/philip-guedalla-33429_henry-james_the-work-of-henry-james-has-always-seeme_3199280.jpg) > [The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-curtis/the-nearest-we-have-to-a-henry-james-or-an-edith-wharton-of-the-east/) Charlotte Curtis [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/charlotte-curtis-100262_classes_the-nearest-we-have-to-a-henry-james-or_2867754.jpg) > [“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/henry-james-said-there-isn-t-any-difference-between-the-english-novel/) [Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/eudora-welty-1564_eudora-welty_henry-james-said-there-isn-t-any-differe_2401936.jpg) > [The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/the-craftless-anarchy-of-the-beat-poets-on-the-one-hand-and-the/) [Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-helprin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/mark-helprin-1171_anarchy_the-craftless-anarchy-of-the-beat-poets_2772802.png) > [“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/azar-nafisi/the-truth-is-that-james-like-many-other-great-writers-and-artists-had/) [Azar Nafisi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/azar-nafisi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/azar-nafisi-2001_art_the-truth-is-that-james-like-many-other_2606738.png) > [I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-m-still-primarily-interested-in-observing-as-closely-as-possible/) [Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/garth-greenwell-14165_deals_i-m-still-primarily-interested-in-observ_2837462.jpg) > [The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin-2/the-distinction-between-literary-and-genre-fiction-is-stupid-and/) [George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/george-r-r-martin-2-926_back_the-distinction-between-literary-and-gen_1455556.jpg) > [“ I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ja/i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment-a-man-can-get-people-places/) Henry ja [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/henry-ja-166573_inspirational_i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment_2152483.jpg) > [There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-scott/there-are-plenty-of-writers-past-and-present-from-shakespeare-to/) [Joanna Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c52/joanna-scott-21641_acceptable_there-are-plenty-of-writers-past-and-pre_1314890.jpg) > [ \[A novel by Henry James\] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church-lit-but-without-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/h-g-wells-1122_altars_a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church_158550.png) > [“In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/in-washington-square-one-could-still-feel-the-characters-of-henry/) [Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/patti-smith-394_acoustic-guitar_in-washington-square-one-could-still-fee_3112879.jpg) > [“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/o-henry/action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me-i-never-once-mistook-his/) [O. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/o-henry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/o-henry-3281_focus_action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me_2169589.jpg) > [While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-epstein/while-reading-writers-of-great-formulatory-power-henry-james/) [Joseph Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-epstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c46/joseph-epstein-10324_brilliance_while-reading-writers-of-great-formulato_1411505.jpg) > [“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-t-garry/write-down-what-your-reader-needs-no-more-no-less-reading-should-be/) Christopher T. Garry [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53f/christopher-t-garry-228237_advice_write-down-what-your-reader-needs-no-mor_1181565.jpg) > [“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers-i-liked-hawthorne-henry/) [Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/truman-capote-376_american-writer_she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers_1838208.jpg) > [“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-hill/i-go-downstairs-and-the-books-blink-at-me-from-the-shelves-or-stare/) [Susan Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-hill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cf/susan-hill-11625_book_i-go-downstairs-and-the-books-blink-at-m_519277.jpg) > [All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/all-of-women-s-stories-in-the-19th-century-had-either-one-of-two/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ea/elizabeth-gilbert-131_19th-century_all-of-women-s-stories-in-the-19th-centu_3198058.jpg) > [Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-budington-kelland/henry-james-once-defined-life-as-that-predicament-which-precedes/) Clarence Budington Kelland [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/clarence-budington-kelland-879_best-dad_henry-james-once-defined-life-as-that-pr_2723456.png) > [“Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-james-books/alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-cooperative-poetry-press-founded-in/) Alice James Books [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/alice-james-books-186286_asian-american_alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-coopera_364220.jpg) > [“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-never-never-read-my-wife-and/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/robert-w-service-17575_book-lover_i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-neve_45421.jpg) > [“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-wood/perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-when-he-talked-about-the/) [James Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-wood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/james-wood-31847_characters-in-books_perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-w_2715929.jpg) > [“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot-2/james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-tellingly-in-his-mastery-over/) [T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot-2/) [Image](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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-cott/there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of-your-work-i-say-to-maurice-on/) Jonathan Cott [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg) > [“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-carver/evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-was-finished-with-a-short/) [Raymond Carver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-carver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/raymond-carver-2821_90_evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-w_2348657.png) > [“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/in-his-book-real-presences-george-steiner-asks-us-to-imagine-a/) [Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-dyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/geoff-dyer-8822_art_in-his-book-real-presences-george-steine_1353674.jpg) > [“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just-some-simple-differences/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/elizabeth-gilbert-131_hand-in-hand_and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just_1827597.jpg) ## Top authors on Henry james ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the tallest mountains, and the bluest lakes, and the finest pictures and the handsomest churches, and the most celebrated men, and the most beautiful women.\" -Henry james 'the American”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry ja" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ja/i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment-a-man-can-get-people-places/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/henry-ja-166573_inspirational_i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment_2152483.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/henry-ja-166573_inspirational_i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment_2152483.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/henry-ja-166573_inspirational_i-want-the-biggest-kind-of-entertainment_2152483.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to…” — Henry ja", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. 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Wells", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 25, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Patti Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/in-washington-square-one-could-still-feel-the-characters-of-henry/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/patti-smith-394_acoustic-guitar_in-washington-square-one-could-still-fee_3112879.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/patti-smith-394_acoustic-guitar_in-washington-square-one-could-still-fee_3112879.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/patti-smith-394_acoustic-guitar_in-washington-square-one-could-still-fee_3112879.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author…” — Patti Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: \"Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet,\" and \"Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit\"—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "O. Henry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/o-henry/action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me-i-never-once-mistook-his/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/o-henry-3281_focus_action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me_2169589.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/o-henry-3281_focus_action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me_2169589.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/o-henry-3281_focus_action-of-the-brain-it-seemed-easy-to-me_2169589.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he…” — O. Henry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 27, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. 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Have you read My Mortal Enemy?\" With no particular expression, she said, \"Actually, I wrote it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Truman Capote" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers-i-liked-hawthorne-henry/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/truman-capote-376_american-writer_she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers_1838208.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/truman-capote-376_american-writer_she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers_1838208.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/735/truman-capote-376_american-writer_she-wanted-to-know-what-american-writers_1838208.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. \"Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…\" \"No, living.\"…” — Truman Capote", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 30, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not have the language in which to speak to a Latin dictionary. 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Their objectives were to give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the publishing process. The press remains true to that mission and to publishing a diversity of poets including both beginning and established poets, and a diversity of poetic styles. The press is named for Alice James—the sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James—whose fine journal and gift for writing were unrecognized during her lifetime. Since 1994, the press has been affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. The press educates up to 14 interns per year through individual writing apprenticeships. Alice James Books also serves to train and advise the on-campus, bi-annual literary journal, The Sandy River Review. Alice James Books is one of the original and few presses in the country that is run collectively. Our cooperative selects manuscripts for publication through both regional and national annual competitions. The cooperative offers two book competitions a year: the Kinereth Gensler Award and the Beatrice Hawley Award. The winners of the Kinereth Gensler Award competition become active members of Alice James Books and act as the editorial board after their manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award is exempt from the cooperative work commitment. Alice James Books recently established two new book series: the AJB Translation Series and The Kundiman Poetry Prize. The press partners with Kundiman, a nonprofit organization devoted to the promotion and preservation on Asian American poetry, to present The Kundiman Poetry Prize, a book-length manuscript competition open to all Asian American poets with any number of published books. The inaugural competition took place in 2010.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice James Books" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-james-books/alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-cooperative-poetry-press-founded-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/alice-james-books-186286_asian-american_alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-coopera_364220.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/alice-james-books-186286_asian-american_alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-coopera_364220.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/alice-james-books-186286_asian-american_alice-james-books-is-a-nonprofit-coopera_364220.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973 by five women and two men…” — Alice James Books", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 34, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. \"Please make me,\" says some wistful tome, \"A wee bit of yourself.\" And so I take my treasure home, And tuck it in a shelf. And now my very shelves complain; They jam and over-spill. They say: \"Why don't you ease our strain?\" \"Some day,\" I say, \"I will.\" So book by book they plead and sigh; I pick and dip and scan; Then put them back, distressed that I Am such a busy man. Now, there's my Boswell and my Sterne, my Gibbon and Defoe; To savor Swift I'll never learn, Montaigne I may not know. On Bacon I will never sup, For Shakespeare I've no time; Because I'm busy making up These jingly bits of rhyme. Chekov is caviar to me, While Stendhal makes me snore; Poor Proust is not my cup of tea, And Balzac is a bore. I have their books, I love their names, And yet alas! they head, With Lawrence, Joyce and Henry James, My Roster of Unread. I think it would be very well If I commit a crime, And get put in a prison cell And not allowed to rhyme; Yet given all these worthy books According to my need, I now caress with loving looks, But never, never read.\" (from, Book Lover)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert W. Service" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-never-never-read-my-wife-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/robert-w-service-17575_book-lover_i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-neve_45421.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/robert-w-service-17575_book-lover_i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-neve_45421.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/robert-w-service-17575_book-lover_i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-neve_45421.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never…” — Robert W. Service", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 35, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and as readers or watchers we tend to applaud any effort made towards the construction of that reality. We do not, of course, indulge actual people in the world this way at all. In real life, the fact that something seems real to someone is not enough to interest us, or to convince us that that reality is interesting. But the self-reality of fictional characters is deeply engrossing, which is why villains are lovable in literature in ways that they are not in life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Wood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-wood/perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-when-he-talked-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/james-wood-31847_characters-in-books_perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-w_2715929.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/james-wood-31847_characters-in-books_perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-w_2715929.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/james-wood-31847_characters-in-books_perhaps-this-is-what-henry-james-meant-w_2715929.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters…” — James Wood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 36, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. [...] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.\" ( Little Review , 1918)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "T.S. Eliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot-2/james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-tellingly-in-his-mastery-over/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/t-s-eliot-2-1761_henry-james_james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-t_2308204.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/t-s-eliot-2-1761_henry-james_james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-t_2308204.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/t-s-eliot-2-1761_henry-james_james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-t_2308204.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a…” — T.S. Eliot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 37, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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] or 'I'm in the milk and the milk's in me' [from Night Kitchen].\" \"Obviously I have one theme, and it's even in the book I'm working on right now. It's not that I have such original ideas, just that I'm good at doing variations on the same idea over and over again. You can't imagine how relieved I was to find out that Henry James admitted he had only a couple of themes and that all of his books were based on them. That's all we need as artists - one power-driven fantasy or obsession, then to be clever enough to do variations… like a series of variations by Mozart. They're so good that you forget they're based on one theme. The same things draw me, the same images…\" \"What is this one obsession?\" \"I'm not about to tell you - not because it's a secret, but because I can't verbalize it.\" \"There's a line by Bob Dylan in 'Just Like a Woman' which talks about being 'inside the rain.'\" \"Inside the rain?\" \"When it's raining outside,\" I explain, \"I often feel inside myself, as if I were inside the rain… as if the rain were my self. That's the sense I get from Dylan's image and from your books as well.\" \"It's strange you say that,\" Maurice answers, \"because rain has become one of the potent images of my new book. It sort of scares me that you mentioned that line. Maybe that's what rain means. It's such an important ingredient in this new work, and I've never understood what it meant. There was a thing about me and rain when I was a child: if I could summon it up in one sentence, I'd be happy to. It's such connected tissue…”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Cott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-cott/there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of-your-work-i-say-to-maurice-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b48/jonathan-cott-68554_books_there-s-a-theme-that-appears-in-much-of_2126353.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 38, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason -- if the worlds are in any way blurred -- the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raymond Carver" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-carver/evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-was-finished-with-a-short/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/raymond-carver-2821_90_evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-w_2348657.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/raymond-carver-2821_90_evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-w_2348657.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/raymond-carver-2821_90_evan-connell-said-once-that-he-knew-he-w_2348657.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through…” — Raymond Carver", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 39, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to \"imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is prohibited.\" In such a society there would be no more essays on whether Hamlet was mad or only pretending to be, no reviews of the latest exhibitions or novels, no profiles of writers or artists. There would be no secondary, or parasitic, discussion - let alone tertiary: commentary on commentary. We would have, instead, a \"republic for writers and readers\" with no cushion of professional opinion-makers to come between creators and audience. While the Sunday papers presently serve as a substitute for the experiencing of the actual exhibition or book, in Steiner's imagined republic the review pages would be turned into listings:catalogues and guides to what is about to open, be published, or be released. What would this republic be like? Would the arts suffer from the obliteration of this ozone of comment? Certainly not, says Steiner, for each performance of a Mahler symphony is also a critique of that symphony. Unlike the reviewer, however, the performer \"invests his own being in the process of interpretation.\" Such interpretation is automatically responsible because the performer is answerable to the work in a way that even the most scrupulous reviewer is not. Although, most obviously, it is not only the case for drama and music; all art is also criticism. This is most clearly so when a writer or composer quotes or reworks material from another writer or composer. All literature, music, and art \"embody an expository reflection which they pertain\". In other words it is not only in their letters, essays, or conversation that writers like Henry James reveal themselves also to be the best critics; rather, The Portrait of a Lady is itself, among other things, a commentary on and a critique of Middlemarch. \"The best readings of art are art.\" No sooner has Steiner summoned this imaginary republic into existence than he sighs, \"The fantasy I have sketched is only that.\" Well, it is not. It is a real place and for much of the century it has provided a global home for millions of people. It is a republic with a simple name: jazz.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Geoff Dyer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-dyer/in-his-book-real-presences-george-steiner-asks-us-to-imagine-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/geoff-dyer-8822_art_in-his-book-real-presences-george-steine_1353674.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/geoff-dyer-8822_art_in-his-book-real-presences-george-steine_1353674.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/geoff-dyer-8822_art_in-his-book-real-presences-george-steine_1353674.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to \"imagine a society in which all talk about the arts…” — Geoff Dyer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 40, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept. He will never—I promise you—attend a yoga class with me, no matter how many times I may try to convince him that he would absolutely love it. (He would absolutely not love it.) We will never meditate together on a weekend spiritual retreat. I will never get him to cut back on all the red meat, or to do some sort of faddish fasting cleanse with me, just for the fun of it. I will never get him to smooth out his temperament, which burns at sometimes exhausting extremes. He will never take up hobbies with me, I am certain of this. We will not stroll through the farmer’s market hand in hand or go on a hike together specifically to identify wildflowers. And although he is happy to sit and listen to me talk all day long about why I love Henry James, he will never read the collected works of Henry James by my side—so this most exquisite pleasure of mine must remain a private one.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just-some-simple-differences/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/elizabeth-gilbert-131_hand-in-hand_and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just_1827597.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/elizabeth-gilbert-131_hand-in-hand_and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just_1827597.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/729/elizabeth-gilbert-131_hand-in-hand_and-even-beyond-the-flaws-there-are-just_1827597.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both…” — Elizabeth Gilbert", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/henry-james/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/henry-james/", "name": "Henry james Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/henry-james/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/anonymous-1_henry-james_a-mind-so-fine-no-thought-could-pass-thr_2761055.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 129 Henry james quotes by 109 authors. 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