Japanese Author

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or author:

    “In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)