"There 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. Salinger, all'anagrafe Jerome David Salinger, scrittore; New York, 1º gennaio 1919 – Cornish, 27 gennaio 2010)