Books Quote by Henry James Download Open image “What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character Inspirational Novel Writing
“There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile to the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
