A rumination on Salinger’s comment about writing for pleasure

Here’s the quote again. It’s been lin­ger­ing in my mind. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own plea­sure. J.D. Salinger This epi­taph is scat­tered promi­nently across the web since J.D. Salinger’s death. It’s the sim­plest way to explain Salinger’s long silence: his own words. I won­der whether […]