4 Henry James Quotes on Storytelling

Henry James quotes on storytelling

32. The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

56. The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be.

68. The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

70. The ever importunate murmur, 'Dramatize it, dramatize it!'