There 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.
From James Salter
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
Every 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.
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
The 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.
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives