The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
“So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“If a body meet a body coming through the rye. Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“I mean if thousands of little kids are running and they do not look where they are going, I have to come… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“In what must surely be considered one of the great lost scripts of history (or a Saturday Night Live sketch), Chase brought… — Brett Martin Copy Share Image
