James Agee Quotes

United States, Novelist
November 27, 1909 – May, 16, 1955.

James Rufus Agee (/ˈeɪdʒiː/ AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, 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 (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.

Also known as Journalist, Poet, Screenwriter, Critic

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

James Agee
- Sky
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
- Good
- Adventure
- Luck
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James Agee
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.

James Agee
- Time
- Summer
Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

James Agee
- People
- Picture