I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
— James Salter
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
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.
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
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.
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.
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.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
