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 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....

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable,....

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable.....

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

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

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness....

For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there.