Skip to content

Book Quote by James Salter

“Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.” quote by James Salter — Download Open image

“Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Book Books Earth Fortunate Invented Left Man Naked Nature Nothing Past Time Vanish Very Without Would

More by James Salter

It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will…

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

Image

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

Image

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

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…

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…

Image

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

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…

Image

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

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…

Image

“One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.”

Image

“Life is separated by scars, like the rings in the inside of a tree.”

Image

Explore all 156 James Salter quotes

More Book quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

Image

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Image

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Image

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Image

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Image

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

Image

Browse all 29,278 Book quotes