See earlier post James Salter.
INTERVIEWER
But why a memoir?
SALTER
To restore those years when one says, All this is mine—these cities, women, houses, days.
INTERVIEWER
What do you think is the ultimate impulse to write?
SALTER
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.
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