James Salter Quotes

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

Winter makes me want to rage.

I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

I don't like cold weather.

I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

It was never a thing that bothered me, being cold or if there's snow. It never fazed me.

I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

It's never sunny in Buffalo.

I'm not a cold-weather guy.

Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

That grand old poem called Winter

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.