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
ambition artist essence
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
ideas stories very-good
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
rome branches might
All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.
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.
unions usual bases
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
effort poetry mind
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
children hate believe
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
feet red-flags cash
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
might alarms exciting
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.
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.
artist circles problem
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
artist choices faces
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
liberty use want
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.