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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SolitudeHouseSittingNeedPark

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

John C. Reilly

WorkQualityPeopleControlThink

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

John Astin

MoneyPeopleYouKnowNeverPoint

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

TeacherYouProfessorTakeThinker

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

Stone Gossard

GuitarUpKnewWantedPicked

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

AchievementStartAdviceAwardYou

Basketball was always my game.

Jason Pierre-Paul

BasketballGameAlways

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

Jon Hamm

StrengthLiveYourselfWorldBetter

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Jon Oringer

GoodImpossibleProblemsBetterEven

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Bono

PeopleFreeFactsLibertyWantLike

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

HappinessFlameEndGoBurnOut

There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming way we go through the world happening. The lyrical eye, the perspective of poetry, can get to something like this when other forms of writing can't.

Alissa Quart

TechnologyMoneyPerspectivePoetry

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Noam Chomsky

CommunityHealthSpacePeopleYou

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