“ He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler. Jennie Fields
“ 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… Truman Capote
“ 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. W.B. Yeats
“ 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. Eudora Welty
“ Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them. Amy Poehler
“ [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'… James Shapiro
“ His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost stor… Herbert A. Wise
“ But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a… Deborah Meyler
