Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
Henry JamesThe girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
Henry JamesLife being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
Henry James