black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

J. D. Salinger

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
You 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. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Kind Perfection
That’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

Hell Myself
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGER

Exception Herself See Togetherness
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER

God Myself Respect Sick
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading

You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More J. D. Salinger Quotes