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Henry Green Quotes

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

Henry Green
Secret, Highlights

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

Henry Green
Night, Long, Feelings

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

Henry Green
Reading, Laughing, Goes On

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Henry Green
Art, Miracle, Should

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

Henry Green
Cowboy, Cows, Way

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Henry Green
Birthday, Age, Fifty
Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Henry Green
Art, Purpose, Alive

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

Henry Green
School, Doubt, Income
Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”

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