I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), 
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Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. S... 
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. 
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I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski. 
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ... 
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. 
Central depth of purple,
Leaves more bright than rose,
Who shall tell what brightest thought
... 
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h... 
He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ... 
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. 
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. 
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. 
He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himse... 
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and fore... 
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. 
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. 
My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. 
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals. 
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. 
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi... 
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. 
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl... 
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin... 
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. 
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is ... 
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. 
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand. 
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. 
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