Henry James Quotes on Storytelling
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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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.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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The ever importunate murmur, 'Dramatize it, dramatize it!'