Quotes by James, Henry

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without i >>

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident >>

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant >>

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns somet >>

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How >>

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

James, Henry