If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world you would most want to read if you had your heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself.
—J.D. Salinger, from Seymour: An Introduction (via exoticwild)
(Source: victoriajoan)