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James Salter Quotes

I’ve always said that I felt women are more heroic Picture Quote #1

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start Picture Quote #1

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one’s child Picture Quote #1

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves Picture Quote #1

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course Picture Quote #1

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening; you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done Picture Quote #1

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Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house Picture Quote #1

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing Picture Quote #1

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I’m hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want Picture Quote #1

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you’re good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn’t last long and you’re quickly discarded Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You’re travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error Picture Quote #1

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Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things Picture Quote #1

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type Picture Quote #1

I don’t fear death. I’m not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

... She is simply the living portion of the meal Picture Quote #1

The normal economic system works itself Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people Picture Quote #1

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn’t it? It gives you an impression right away Picture Quote #1

I’m a ‘frotteur,’ someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader’s hair frizzy. There’s a question of pacing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If you read a book about school - someone else’s book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It’s describing the student: he’s bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You’ll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you’re really writing Picture Quote #1

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it’s also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing Picture Quote #1

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 make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t Picture Quote #1

It’s great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those Picture Quote #1

There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I’m used to traveling. It’s not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It’s the curtain coming up on another act Picture Quote #1

I’d say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don’t want to say topics, but certain points of interest Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always said that I felt women are more heroic (James Salter Quotes) Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start (James Salter Quotes) The death of kings can be recited, but not of one’s child (James Salter Quotes) The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves (James Salter Quotes) I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course. (James Salter Quotes) I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening; you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done. (James Salter Quotes) Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. (James Salter Quotes) On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing (James Salter Quotes) I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I’m hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want (James Salter Quotes) A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you’re good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn’t last long and you’re quickly discarded (James Salter Quotes) 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 (James Salter Quotes) I’ve known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You’re travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error. (James Salter Quotes) Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things (James Salter Quotes) I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type (James Salter Quotes) I don’t fear death. I’m not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be (James Salter Quotes) 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 (James Salter Quotes) ... She is simply the living portion of the meal (James Salter Quotes) The normal economic system works itself (James Salter Quotes) 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. (James Salter Quotes) 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. (James Salter Quotes) Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people. (James Salter Quotes) A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn’t it? It gives you an impression right away. (James Salter Quotes) I’m a ‘frotteur,’ someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader’s hair frizzy. There’s a question of pacing. (James Salter Quotes) 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. (James Salter Quotes) If you read a book about school - someone else’s book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It’s describing the student: he’s bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You’ll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you’re really writing. (James Salter Quotes) The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it’s also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing. (James Salter Quotes) 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 make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t. (James Salter Quotes) It’s great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those. (James Salter Quotes) There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I’m used to traveling. It’s not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It’s the curtain coming up on another act. (James Salter Quotes) I’d say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don’t want to say topics, but certain points of interest. (James Salter Quotes)

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