James Salter Quote

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that w...