Henry James
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.Collection: Book
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.Collection: Illustration
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.Collection: Running
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.Collection: Reading
The “germ,” wherever gathered, has ever been for me, “the germ of a story,” and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.Collection: Stories
I don’t need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.Collection: Romance
There’s no romance here but what you may have brought with you.Collection: Romance