Henry James Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.