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7/13/2025, 4:28:16 AM
>Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
----Oscar Wilde

>An idiot, and a Boston idiot to boot, than which there is nothing lower in the world.
----H. L. Mencken

>Despite the scruples and delicate complexities of James, his work suffers from a major defect: the absence of life.
---Jorge Luis Borges

>Would you rather read Henry James or be crushed to death by a great weight?
---Lawrence Durrell

>Please tell me what you find in Henry James. ... we have his works here, and I read, and I can't find anything but faintly tinged rose water, urbane and sleek, but vulgar and pale as Walter Lamb. Is there really any sense in it?
----Virginia Woolf

>Mark Twain said he would rather "be damned to John Bunyan's heaven" than read Henry James's novel The Bostonians.

>I read a collection of Henry James' short stories—miserable stuff, a complete fake, you ought to debunk that pale porpoise and his plush vulgarities some day.
>He writes with a very sharp nib and the ink is very pale and there is very little of it in his inkpot . . . The style is artistic but it is not the style of an artist . . . Henry James is definitely for non-smokers. He has charm (as the weak blond prose of Turgenev has), but that’s about all.
>I have read (or rather reread) 'What Maisie Knew.' It is terrible. Perhaps there is some other Henry James and I am continuously hitting upon the wrong one?
---Vladimir Nabokov

>Henry James? That's not literature.
---Cormac McCarthy