James Salter Quotes

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.

James Salter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I AmJoyBookAestheticYouPerfect

I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.

Jessica Biel

LifeAlwaysWithoutActivityBeen

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

GreatPoetryWritingBookProse

When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all.

John Holdren

PresidentAskNeedHimSeeI See

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

John Irving

ResponsibilityMeStoryConnections

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

Matt Czuchry

WritingRealityEndFeelYouWant

Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

Andy Grammer

TimeYouThreeHardGoneBecause

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

Michael Ovitz

InternetEntertainmentIndustryEver

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Douglas Coupland

MemoriesDayBrainStrongDieNew

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Cheech Marin

HistoryMeWorldLanguagePowerful

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Brad Pitt

DuckTryingHideCelebrityOutFull

I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza.

Ariel Sharon

FutureI AmWillWorkingJewsAm

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

Alison Brie

ParentsHippiesDefinitelyReformed

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