Henry James wrote brilliantly about story art in the prefac… - Robert McKee

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Henry James wrote brilliantly about story art in the prefaces to his novels, and once asked: “What, after all, is an event?” An event, he said, could be as little as a woman putting her hand on the table and looking at you “that certain way.

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