James Jones Quotes

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

James Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1921 - May 9, 1977

Topics

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Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Joe Bastianich

LiveFoodPastaEatWithoutFuel

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

Andrew Shaffer

DepressionCreativeMeLongWill

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

John Carroll Lynch

EvilLongActorHumanCapableSee

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

Anderson East

HoldReligiousMeansAnyDevout

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

Robert Knepper

Growing UpFastGrowingRunKidUp

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Michael Bay

CoolYearBecomeOutCreatedMovie

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

InspirationalSimpleAlwaysMarvelous

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

Tracy Spiridakos

MemoriesCoolGrowing UpChaosTrees

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

Robert Dallek

DayPeopleEnd Of The DayEndView

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

FamilyDayBrotherPeopleGoldLeaf

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

Judy Sheindlin

GoodPeopleYouShareBeen

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

SmileLiveGivingCostHardestAdd

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