Books Quote by Lynne Truss

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

— Ben Lerner

“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

“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

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.”

— Mark Twain

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow