All James Salter Quotes
- I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. Always Knew
- Life passes into pages if it passes into anything, Funny
- Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer. Enthusiasm
- The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves. Chill
- A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. Bodied
- One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. All
- The dreams are the skeleton of all reality. All
- The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,… Collecting
- Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. Benefits
- A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last… Appeal
- Life is weather. Life is meals, Inspirational
- Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. Based
- I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is… Best
- Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. Almost Nonexistent
- To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down.… All
- WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… Beached
- What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish. All
- My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can… Continual
- 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 not who I… Considered
- I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you… Bourgeois