There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write. — James Salter Copy Share Image
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“As I think of it, there’s an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility… — James Salter Copy Share Image
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time. — James Salter Copy Share Image
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it,” Nedra said. “It’s like a tattoo. You wanted it… — James Salter Copy Share Image
In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave — James Salter Copy Share Image
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. — James Salter Copy Share Image
A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it and the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make. — James Salter Copy Share Image
I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Life is separated by scars, like the rings in the inside of a tree.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
