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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

Topics

WritingThinkYouSeeingFindDown

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Jimi Hendrix

LiveMeWorldMirrorsNowSpirit

With dancing, I think the reason it's worked for me, and I love it so much, is because I've trained my entire life. Once you train, you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So I think, as I grow, I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

Jillian Hervey

LifeLoveLearningConfidenceMe

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Anna Quindlen

WomenMorningWomanSmartThought

Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Amory Lovins

ChangeSacrificeProfitBurdenSee

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Stephen Malkmus

MissionWriteDesperateStuffChart

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Steven Tyler

TearsYearThreeNeverBandBored

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

HeartPastI AmFaceNameBorn

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Tracy Chapman

TimeSchoolThoughtLovedPoverty

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

Ruth Reichl

FoodThinkFirstPieceI Think

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Michelle Malkin

EatingRoadPoliticalMediaHouse

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Dominic West

PlayMoreAlwaysWantedComicParts

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Dick Cavett

TimeTogetherGet TogetherSomeone

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