Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
HENRY JAMES