James Salter's Profile
Brief about James Salter: By info that we know James Salter was born at 1925-06-10. And also James Salter is American Novelist.
Some James Salter's quotes. Goto "James Salter's quotation" section for more.My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.
Tags: Advice, Book, WhyMy idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
Tags: Trying, Words, WritingThe publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
Tags: Business, Career, WritingThe writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.
Tags: Heart, Words, WritingThe writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.
Tags: Good, Level, WritingThere is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act.
Tags: Another, Life, UsedYou 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.
Tags: Experience, Life, WriteYour parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
Tags: Best, May, ParentsA name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
Tags: Away, Impression, NameEvery nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.
Tags: America, Feeling, RatherHappiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
Tags: Based, Happiness, OftenI don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
Tags: Death, Else, FearI like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
Tags: Beauty, FeelingI wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
Tags: Lost, Time, WritingI write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
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