Henry James Quotes

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

Everything kind of has a message in it.