Quote of the Day

I try and finish chapters. You’d be a fool to be excited by a sentence, and a paragraph is really not that much better, although sometimes you feel a certain sense of warmth, having written a paragraph that seems to be close to what you had hoped…[Delighting in a sentence is] a little like looking in the mirror as you pass the entrance hall. Don’t waste your time.

—James Salter, in an interview at the Harry Ransom Center