One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. — Libba Bray 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
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way,… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger 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
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
“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
“Contrast J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry 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
Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
“Hunting Down the Secular Humanists" "...What makes them so dangerous is that Secular Humanists look just like you and me. Some of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday,… — John Larroquette 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
“I thought it was, "If a body catch a body," Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn’t you just love it?”She certainly didn’t sound like a nun. “Yes. I did. I liked it… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had time yet.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressive and… — Abigail George 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
“ 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
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. — Ryan Phillippe 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
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being… — Judd Nelson 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
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore 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 book though, it’s too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should’ve cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me. — James Stern” quote by The New York Times](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/the-new-york-times-59987_bad-reviews_on-the-catcher-in-the-rye-this-salinger_2493117.jpg)
