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Write Quotes by James Salter
- 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.…
- What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
- I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
- You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be…
- If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
- In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
- There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
- My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying…
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