Intend Quote by J. D. Salinger Download Open image “I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.” — J. D. Salinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intend Like Myself Necessarily Write
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men,… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You keep records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Master, don’t. Please.” “Please is a great word–and I intend to please. Me, for sure. Maybe even you.” Lindsey and deVries” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what… — Silvio Santos Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send… — Howard Baker Copy Share Image
I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
