J D Salinger - A Writer's Writer who remained reclusive till the end

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

- More quotations on Happiness

It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

J. D. Salinger, Catcher In the Rye

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, opening line

The world's Writing Tribe has lost one of the original masters of story-telling who wrote not for money or power but pure writing. But for "The Catcher in the Rye", "Nine Stories", "Franny and Zooey", "Raise high the Roof Beam", "Carpenters", "Seymour: An Introduction",  a dozen or more stories published in New Yorker, Saliner remained a legendary recluse and raised the game of solitude to epic proportions with speculations rife that he has atleast fifteen unpublished books in his safe. His wish was that all these manuscripts were to be opened after his death and published unedited. Surely, Salinger will rake it in for the American Publishers and Hollywood movie-makers  - Saliner's language had it all - grace, turn of phrase, wit and wisdom, cleverness and majesty. His story may provide the world of book-lovers  and writers - the truth behind what made Salinger a Catcher in the Rye!. R.I.P JD Salinger. Let the words make it in print.