There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
J. D. SalingerIf you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
J. D. SalingerAfter I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintancesโฆI may be an orange peel.
J. D. SalingerYou think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. Salinger