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You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

- James Salter
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Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

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.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

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.

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

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You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.