#henry james

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

— David Antin

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Norman MacCaig

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

— Peter Straub

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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

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

— Charlotte Curtis

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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

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