I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMES
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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