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Writing Quotes by Henry James
- Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
- What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
- Writing is not primarily escape, but use.
- The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from…
- I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
- I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
- The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
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