Light Quote by James Salter

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading…

— James Salter

“What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

— James Salter

“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in spite of…

— Andreï Makine

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his…

— Elizabeth Spencer

“It was warm, and outside the sound of insects in the night was electric. The music sounded better than anything I'd ever heard. I…

— Andrew Smith

“This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a…

— Alice Hoffman

“We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to…

— Elena Ferrante

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright…

— Hella S. Haasse

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and…

— Karl Kristian Flores