Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
J. D. SalingerThere is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. SalingerI was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean Iโve left schools and places I didnโt even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I donโt care if itโs a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know Iโm leaving it. If you donโt you feel even worse.
J. D. Salinger