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Henry James Quotes

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You are good for nothing unless you are clever  (Henry James Quotes) Things are always different from what they might be  (Henry James Quotes) Keep making the movements of life  (Henry James Quotes) Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to  (Henry James Quotes) ... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate  (Henry James Quotes) If you are going to be pushed you had better jump  (Henry James Quotes) London is on the whole the most possible form of life  (Henry James Quotes) Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!  (Henry James Quotes) He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease  (Henry James Quotes) Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don’t dine  (Henry James Quotes) What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?  (Henry James Quotes) Writing is not primarily escape, but use  (Henry James Quotes) Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do  (Henry James Quotes) Experience is never limited, and it is never complete  (Henry James Quotes) It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance  (Henry James Quotes) Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure  (Henry James Quotes) A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it  (Henry James Quotes) The ever importunate murmur, dramatize it, dramatize it!  (Henry James Quotes) The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions  (Henry James Quotes) The war has used up words  (Henry James Quotes) She had an unequaled gift... Of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities  (Henry James Quotes) The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life  (Henry James Quotes) I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I’ve just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book  (Henry James Quotes) The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender  (Henry James Quotes) 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 secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master  (Henry James Quotes) I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that’s how it got started. After that, graduate school didn’t seem very important  (Henry James Quotes) The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it’s a totally false dichotomy  (Henry James Quotes) The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You’re a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I’ve a subscription  (Henry James Quotes) Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t much matter what you do in particular, so much as you LIVE while you’re doing it  (Henry James Quotes) Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?  (Henry James Quotes)
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