James > James's Quotes

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
― Edgar Allen Poe