Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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