Henry James Quotes


I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.


Citations

James, Henry. The Notebooks of Henry James, edited by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock, Oxford University Press, 1947, p. 111.

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Henry James
Henry James
  • Born: April 15, 1843
  • Died: February 28, 1916
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Henry James OM (28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.