Quotes by James Agee

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.

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.

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

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

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.

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.