Henry James Quotes

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

Act now, for now is all you have.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Existing is plagiarism.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

Originality is only variation.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

Don't miss the moment. It's all we have

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Just drop your bucket where you are.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

While there is time, let's go out and do everything.

Story is about originality, not duplication

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.