James Salter Quotes About Joy

• He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

  James Salter

  Reading, Color, People

  FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 18, 2017

• Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

  James Salter

  Children, Real, Drunk

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.300, Vintage

• The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

  James Salter

  Writing, Opportunity, Joy

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