Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life. James Salter booklifelive Change image and share on social
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 artbeautycivilization share on social
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything. James Salter lifepagepass Change image and share on social
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. James Salter honestpointerrigorously Change image and share on social
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 difficultdiscouragementdishearten share on social
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 backfilmlose Change image and share on social
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 americacasefelt Change image and share on social
I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had. James Salter enterfatherhope Change image and share on social
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. James Salter beautyimperfectionreal Change image and share on social
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing. James Salter considerdevotefighter Change image and share on social
