J. D. Salinger Quotes

J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
Born: Jan 1, 1919
Died: Jan 27, 2010
Book Know Myself People Somebody You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. J. D. Salinger
You Hate Moron Morons Call Them
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. J. D. Salinger
Courage Sick Having Absolute Nobody
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 Own Else Kind Some Only Perfection Terms Concern His Shoot Artist Anyone
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger
Love Time You Girl Half Fall Hell Down Every Every Time Pretty About Something Never Know Where Them Then Sat Her Thing By The Time
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. J. D. Salinger
Exactly Know Mean
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. J. D. Salinger
Privacy Peace Invasion Marvelous Terrible Still Peaceful Publishing
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. J. D. Salinger
Time Book More Only Read Frozen Again Moment
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J. D. Salinger
Life God People World Ugly Religious Religious Life Something Having Had He Him Did Goes Accuse Walt Just Just Something Gall Created Theory Who Agony
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach. J. D. Salinger
Best Me Book Will Chapters Out Unbearable Some Fact Almost Catcher Catcher In The Rye Saddened Over Reach Shelf Friends Shocked Children In Fact Realize Many Aware Kept
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. J. D. Salinger
Work Myself Man Strange Kind Aloof Protect Known Doing Trying
I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. J. D. Salinger
Needs You Nice Writers He Feel Always Anyone Quoting Loves Really Grant Reason Works Deeply
People never believe you. J. D. Salinger
You People Believe Never
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. J. D. Salinger
You Money Hell Always Making Up Blue Ends
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. J. D. Salinger
You Girl Damn Late Meets Gives Nobody She Looks Swell Who
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. J. D. Salinger
Myself Publish Write Like Intend Necessarily
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. J. D. Salinger
People Better Suitcases Than Roommates Much Really Your Hard
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel. J. D. Salinger
You Property Somebody Unfair Some Someone Had Feel Suppose Liked How Been Stole Stolen Closet Stories Them Act Your Coat

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