James Salter Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Salter
James Salter Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.
As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there.
I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.
Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
The heart is in darkness, unknowing, like those animals in mines that have never seen the day. It has no loyalties, no hopes; it has its task.
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
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 to write such a book.
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
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.
As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.
I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.
He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.
Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.