The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
James SalterThere comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
James SalterThe myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.
James Salter