Books Quote by Anonymous

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put…

— Joanna Scott

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

— David Antin

A mind so fine no thought could pass through it

— Anonymous

“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 talented &…

— Anonymous

“My life is like an O Henry story…the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Take it easy, friend," siad Peter, regaining his balance, quickly understanding the condition Henry was in. "Friend? You left us. In the caves." Henry's…

— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

“So Henry Adams, well aware that he could not succeed as a scholar, and finding his social position beyond improvement or need of effort,…

— Henry Adams

“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all…

— Chad Harbach

“For years, he’s been listening to her complain about being ignored by Justin and assuring it her it was simply a matter of time…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

“Ellipses," according to Henry, are "fucking excellent." The exclamation mark is just a weird guy who talks too loudly.”

— Cath Crowley