Quotes by William Dean Howells - Realistic, inspirational, interesting, serious, thoughtful, exemplary, entertaining, interesting comments by the renowned American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright

1920 William Dean Howells (born March 1, 1837) in Martins Ferry (then Martinsville), Ohio, US, died. William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed The Dean of American Letters. William Dean Howells is particularly known as the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He was also known for his novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria and the Christmas story Christmas Every Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.

In addition to his own creative works, William Dean Howells wrote criticism and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Henrik Ibsen, Emile Zola, Giovanni Varga, Benito Pérez Galdós, and especially Leo Tolstoy, which earned him a reputation in the United States. He studied American writers Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles W. Chesnutt, Abraham Kahan, Madison Caven, and Frank Norris also wrote critically in support. In his Editor's Study column in The Atlantic Monthly and, later, in Harper's, he disseminated his principles of realism in literature.

William Dean Howells saw realism as nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material. In defense of reality, as opposed to ideal, he wrote, I hope that the time is coming when not only the artist, but also the common, average man, who always holds the standard of art in his power, Will have courage, and will reject the ideal grasshopper wherever he finds it - in science, in literature, in art, because it is not simple, natural and honest, because it is not like the real grasshopper, but I think the time is now. Far be it from those who grew up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the passionate grasshopper, the self-dedicated, the courageous, the good old romantic card-board grasshopper, they must die before the simple, honest and natural grasshopper, a fair field . Howells believed that the future of American writing lay not in poetry but in novels, a form which he saw changing from romance to serious.

William Dean Howells was a Christian socialist whose ideals were strongly influenced by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. He joined a Christian socialist group in Boston between 1889 and 1891 and joined several churches, including the First Spiritual Temple and the Church of the Carpenters, the latter affiliated with the Episcopal Church, and the Society of Christian Socialists. These influences led him to be a critic of the social effects of industrial capitalism, as well as to write on social justice issues from an ethical and egalitarian perspective. Although William Dean Howells was not a Marxist.

Noting the documentary and true value of the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James wrote Stroke by stroke and book by book your work was to be, for this excellent notation of our whole democratic light and shadow and give and take, the highest Degree in Documentary. The late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing read two of Howells's works, The Shadow of a Dream and A Fearful Responsibility, describing the latter as absurdly trivial. Bliss Perry considered knowledge of his work important to the understanding of the American provincial novel and believed that he had never written an insincere, dirty, or insulting page in his long career. Mark Twain approved. Described as unusually talented as a writer, but actually a very brilliant man. Here are some realistic, inspirational, interesting, serious, thoughtful, exemplary, entertaining, interesting statements of William Dean Howells.

Live as much as you can. Not doing so is a mistake. It doesn't matter what you do - but live. This place brings everything to me. I see it now. I didn't do that--and now I'm old. it's so late. It has overtaken me - I have lost it. you have time. You are young. stay!

Some people live longer in an hour than others in a month.

The book you read out of a sense of duty, or because you must read it for whatever reason, usually does not make friends with you.

Every one of us must suffer himself for a long time before we can know that he is but one of a great community of misfortunes which has been repeating itself mercilessly since the foundation of the world .

Those novels with old-time heroes and heroines are disastrous!

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

If he was not ordinary, it was nothing remarkable in his mind, which was absolutely clear and practical, but because of the combination of certain qualities of the heart men trusted him, and women called him sweet - one of his words. Which conveys otherwise indefinable superlatives.

Now all civilization comes through literature, especially in our country. A Greek gained his civilization by talking and observing, and to some extent a Parisian may still do so. But we, who live away from history and monuments, must read or we will be barbarized.

If novelists portrayed life in its true form and human emotions in their true proportion and relation, they might be more and more helpful to us, but for the most part they have been and are entirely harmful.

How strange this (earthquake) must have seemed to them all, here where they had always lived so safely! He thought that such a terrible incident could happen to others, but not to him. That's the way!

Some people can last an hour longer than others in a week.

-William Dean Howells

We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world...but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. Its path there is usually very vague and, as far as we can see, it often seems to have no penalties of any kind.

People naturally despise the dependent.

I think you can tell the truth about yourself. But all this? The dark truth we all know in our hearts, or just the white-gray truth of the pericardium, or the nice, white truth of a shirtfront? Even you, Mark Twain, won't tell the truth of a black heart. The person who could do this would be famous until the last day when the sun would not be visible.

It's very strange...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You may never have heard of shrinking values in a picture, but rent, stocks, real estate - all these values have shrunk badly.

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No. No. i understand that. And I completely agree with you. But you know I have always argued that affection can be combined with pleasure and benefit. I wouldn't want a man to marry for money, - that would be very bad, - but I don't understand, when it comes to falling in love, why a man shouldn't love a rich girl because of the ease As a poor from. Some rich girls are very nice, and I should do the same

After reading Turgenev life showed itself to me in different colors. It became more serious, with more terrible and mysterious responsibilities that I did not know about before. My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast gloom of the Slavic, the patient, the agnostic, the trusting.

Here everyone is expected to take care of themselves. I think there will be very little progress if men in America are expected to step up for the sake of others.

He liked words and they satisfied his hunger for words.

Ah, we will never have a true aristocracy, while the reluctance of the masses to depend on parents or wives continues the vibrant spirit of our youth. It strikes at the feet of the feudal system!

And all the characters are invented according to their psychological development, although some are based on real persons who can be easily recognized in that narrative. The play is based on actual events in its main development but the important events, or important uses of them, are the author's. Sometimes he has exaggerated them; sometimes he has paraphrased the accounts of witnesses; in one instance he has repeated the words of the impostor exactly as they were told by the one who heard Dilks's last address.

If novelists portrayed life in its true form and human emotions in their true proportion and relation, they might be more and more helpful to us, but for the most part they have been and are entirely harmful.

How strange this (earthquake) must have seemed to them all, here where they had always lived so safely! He thought that such a terrible incident could happen to others, but not to him. That's the way!

Some people can last an hour longer than others in a week.

-William Dean Howells

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We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world...but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. Its path there is usually very vague and as far as we can see, it often seems to have no penalties of any kind.

People naturally despise the dependent.

I think you can tell the truth about yourself. But all this? The dark truth we all know in our hearts, or just the white-gray truth of the pericardium, or the nice, white truth of a shirtfront? Even you, Mark Twain, won't tell the truth of a black heart. The person who could do this would be famous until the last day when the sun would not be visible.

It's very strange...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You may never have heard of shrinking values in a picture, but rent, stocks, real estate - all these values have shrunk badly.

No. No. i understand that. And I completely agree with you. But you know I have always argued that affection can be combined with pleasure and benefit. I wouldn't want a man to marry for money, - that would be very bad, - but I don't understand, when it comes to falling in love, why a man shouldn't love a rich girl because of the ease As a poor from. Some rich girls are very nice, and I should do the same

After reading Turgenev life showed itself to me in different colors. It became more serious, with more terrible and mysterious responsibilities that I did not know about before. My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast gloom of the Slavic, the patient, the agnostic, the trusting.

Here everyone is expected to take care of themselves. I think there will be very little progress if men in America are expected to step up for the sake of others.

He liked words and they satisfied his hunger for words.

Ah, we will never have a true aristocracy, while the reluctance of the masses to depend on parents or wives continues the vibrant spirit of our youth. It strikes at the feet of the feudal system!

And all the characters are invented according to their psychological development, although some are based on real persons who can be easily recognized in that narrative. The play is based on actual events in its main development but the important events, or important uses of them, are the author's. Sometimes he has exaggerated them; sometimes he has paraphrased the accounts of witnesses; in one instance he has repeated the words of the impostor exactly as they were told by the one who heard Dilks's last address.

Life The secret of a person who is interesting everywhere is that he is interesting everywhere. F.

Ageing. As you grow up you will realize that you were born so great not so long ago. Time gets reduced. F.

Action. One acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

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