James Agee Quotes

James Agee — American Novelist born on November 27, 1909, died on May 16, 1955

James Rufus Agee was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize... (wikipedia)

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

James Agee Quotes

James Agee Quotes

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