Quotes About James Salter

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter.