Quotes by : James Salter

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps....

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind....

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you....

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything....

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers....

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture it cannot....

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are....

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph,....