An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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