James Salter Quote

Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing. You want short sentences and long sentences—well, every writer knows that. You have to develop a certain ease of delivery and make your writing agreeable to read.


The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 133, Issue 127, Summer 1993


Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing. You want short sentences and long sentences—well, every...

Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing. You want short sentences and long sentences—well, every...

Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing. You want short sentences and long sentences—well, every...

Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing. You want short sentences and long sentences—well, every...