J. D. Salinger Quotes

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.