I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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People never notice anything.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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