Quotes about Henry James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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