Henry Green famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
-- Henry Green

#Highlights
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
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
-- Henry Green

#Reading #Laughing #Goes On
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 #Fifty #Said
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
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
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.
-- Henry Green

#Art #Miracle #Should

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.
Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.
We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.
I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
I like to highlight people's superpowers.
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

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