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Writing Quotes by James Salter
- There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
- I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
- The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
- On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
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