James Salter Quotes
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
James Salter
Quotes to Explore
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
Natalie Zea
Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
James McBride
Afterwards, when the match is over, I have my family and my friends. I have fun like a normal person.
Diego Costa
I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
Billy Eichner
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
John Green
In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
Benjamin Booker
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
James Salter
