You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGERWe are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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