On the qualities of a work of art:

To be alive. To have a real life of its own. The miracle is that it should live in the person who reads it. And if it is real and true, it does, for five hundred years, for generation after generation.


The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958, The Art of Fiction No. 22

Henry Green Quotes

To be alive. To have a real life of its own. The miracle is that it should live in the person who reads it. And if it is real and true, it does, for...

To be alive. To have a real life of its own. The miracle is that it should live in the person who reads it. And if it is real and true, it does, for...

To be alive. To have a real life of its own. The miracle is that it should live in the person who reads it. And if it is real and true, it does, for...

To be alive. To have a real life of its own. The miracle is that it should live in the person who reads it. And if it is real and true, it does, for...