Jennie Fields Quote

She wanted to know what American writers I liked. Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson… No, living. Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary au...

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between the English novel and the American novel since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them.

[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future'...