If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
Henry JamesEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
Henry JamesMake him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
Henry James