James Agee Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

  James Agee

  Writing, Artist, Facts

  James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

• 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.

  James Agee

  Fall, Writing, Vocabulary

• I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

  James Agee

  Writing, Littles, Bears

  James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

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