Long Quote by Félix J. Palma

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph…

— Christopher T. Garry

“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some…

— Mort W. Lumsden

“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech- he will measure every word.”

— Arun Gandhi

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith

“He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human speech and…

— Ivan Goncharov

“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at…

— Lynne Truss

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in…

— Alistair Beaton