Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make. James Salter More Quotes by James Salter More Quotes From James Salter You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more, to do more, even when it's a team sport. So I think striving for glory is a natural subject for a writer. Seeking fame. James Salter team writing sports You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very long run. I think if a writer is lucky enough to still have a few books around after he's gone, a few that are still being read, then he's accomplished quite a lot. James Salter optimistic running book A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so inaccurate. You can't have been reading my book with any kind of attention, because that is all wrong, that's even the wrong name you're including there." But these reviewers have been diminished in importance, the work is so little respected. If you're reviewed by a real critic, by James Wood or Louis Menand, then you get something that is informed, interesting, and highly articulate. But the average review doesn't have that kind of depth anymore. James Salter real reading book I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me. James Salter writing Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have to get it. If you don't get it the first time you may not understand. If you like repetition, analysis, explanation, you probably won't like my books. James Salter writing book thinking Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows. James Salter satanic lovers firsts The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves. James Salter garden summer morning I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. James Salter great-things novel writing A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. James Salter cold light snow Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you. James Salter parent brother interesting As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move. James Salter life-is-like games moving One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. James Salter should believe Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. James Salter lizards matter book I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love. James Salter successful men Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start. James Salter invitations events needs God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most. James Salter wall people needs Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense. James Salter impatient intense I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. James Salter written certain writing Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept. James Salter successful believe children Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth. James Salter morning two long
