Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1843
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
marriage differences intimacy
All intimacies are based on differences.
practice generosity novel
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
movement
Keep making the movements of life.
caring garden long
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
unions usual bases
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
house fiction window
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
running long credit
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
ideas stories very-good
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
art self ideas
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
sugar salt adjectives
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
expression may kind
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
creating-art artistic process
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
writing people trying
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.'
freedom eye people
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.