Henry James Quotes

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

Painful, Duty, Fiction

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Pretty, Though

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
Norman MacCaig

Impossible, Read, Henry

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
David Antin

Long, Keep, Closer

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
Antonia Fraser

Change, History, Book

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
Peter Straub

Others, Write, Maybe

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
Philip Guedalla

Work, Simple, Old

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
Charlotte Curtis

East, Classes, Coast

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