“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”  
―     J.D. Salinger,     The Catcher in the Rye

Finding out how true this is today.  I’ve learned that to write means to be comfortable with the idea of never being recognized for it.