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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.

~James Salter

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It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

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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.

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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.

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On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

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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.

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West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

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I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 10th, 1925

Died: June 19th, 2015

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