They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams. James Salter More Quotes by James Salter More Quotes From James Salter It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it. James Salter this-life this-world world Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make. James Salter scripts want people I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military experience. But it came before that. I love their freedom of behavior. They're not constrained by penal attitudes, puritanical attitudes about behavior, both socially and morally. They have a freedom that I admire. An unquestioned freedom. James Salter military feelings attitude I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. James Salter obsessed fear-of-death way There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. James Salter without imperfection real beauty 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 down think you writing I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error. James Salter you anxiety flying night 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 doing look writing time I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope. James Salter i-am man hope expectations 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 me beauty sports men I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. James Salter i-am down feel writing There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act. James Salter road looking situation life West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. James Salter than view more honest I've always said that I felt women are more heroic. James Salter more always women said A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away. James Salter clothing name like you Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation. James Salter never know you chance The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing. James Salter level more good writing
