It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry JamesThe "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.
Henry James...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Henry JamesIt might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
Henry James