Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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