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- 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
- Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe
- I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub
- Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf
- I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin
- Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of… — Edward Abbey
- You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury
- The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and… — Philip Guedalla
- 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
- While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein
- And it's impossible for me to read Henry James. — Norman MacCaig
- Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams