James Agee

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

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

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong read more

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

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 read more

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.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large read more

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.