Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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