Book Quote by James Salter

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been…

— Barbara Tuchman

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from…

— Claire Messud

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

Our lives are books and each day is a page. We can't erase what has already been written but we can always try to…

— Nishan Panwar

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

— Albert Camus