Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
Henry James: Thing
Henry James was American novelist, short story author, and literary critic. Explore interesting quotes on thing.Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI.
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
The New Novel (1914).
What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
"Venice," The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882), reprinted in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8ihou10.txt (1909), ch. I: Venice, pt. II.
Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (16 January 1871).
“So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!”
After suffering a stroke (1915-12-02), the first of several which led to his death, as recounted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 14: "He is said to have told his old friend Lady Prothero, when she saw him after the first stroke, that in the very act of falling (he was dressing at the time) he heard in the room a voice which was distinctly, it seemed, not his own, saying: 'So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!'".
What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
“There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.”
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
Letter to Henry Adams (21 March 1914).
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.”
Book VI, ch. III
The Ambassadors (1903)