Henry Green Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.

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

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