Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." — Henry Green Copy Share Image
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
