James Salter Quotes

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.

For me, blogging is just like talking.

When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

Writing is a great love of mine.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.