Henry Green Professions : Author Born : October 29, 1905 Died : December 13, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Henry Green The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in. Henry Green highlights secret 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 feelings night long The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. Henry Green miracle should art 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 alive purpose art If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. Henry Green reading goes-on laughing 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 age fifty birthday 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 income doubt school Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors