James Salter
James Salter
James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 June 1925
CountryUnited States of America
summer morning garden
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.
pages ifs
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
needs events invitations
Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.
accidents
It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
writing who-i-am years
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.
way-to-live tabloids opinion
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
claims entitled
You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.
writing internet flowering
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
writing ideas people
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
writing views trying
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
feelings aristocracy
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
normal economic economic-systems
The normal economic system works itself.
zero writing way
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.