Japanese Writing

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or writing:

    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)

    When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
    Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)