Quotes by James Salter

James Salter

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.

Girl

Long

Party

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Cold

Light

Snow

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 inaccurate. You can’t have been reading my book with any kind of attention, because that is all wrong, that’s even the wrong name you’re including there.” But these reviewers have been diminished in importance, the work is so little respected. If you’re reviewed by a real critic, by James Wood or Louis Menand, then you get something that is informed, interesting, and highly articulate. But the average review doesn’t have that kind of depth anymore.

Book

Reading

Real

Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can’t avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it’s not a particularly good book. You’re in it, and you’re committed to it.

Book

Character

Powerful

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Games

Life Is Like

Moving

Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

Believe

Children

Successful

Dialogue’s a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Character

Revelations

World

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

People

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

Events

Invitations

Needs

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Needs

People

Wall

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Aristocracy

Attitude

Believe

Bones

Book

Break

Brother

Certain

Character

Children

Cold

Color

Decided

Dream

Drunk

Economic

Economic Systems

Enthusiasm

Events

Fall

Feelings

Firsts

Flowering

Games

Girl

Hands

Ideas

Ifs

Illumination

Interesting

Internet

Invitations

Knows

Levels

Life Is

Life Is Like

Light

Long

Lovers

Luxury

Lying

Meals

Men

Military

Moving

Natural

Needs

Normal

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Quotes by James Salter

James Salter

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.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can’t avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it’s not a particularly good book. You’re in it, and you’re committed to it.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Dialogue’s a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

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