James Agee

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.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in
the time that I lived there so successfully 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.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, read more

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in read more

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.