An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGERAn artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGERThe fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGERI mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGERA 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.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER