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

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 s…

- Henry Green

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

- Henry Green

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

- Henry Green

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

- Henry Green

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 shoul…

- Henry Green

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

- Henry Green

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

- Henry Green