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
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. — Ryan Phillippe 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
'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
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
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
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
“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
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young… — Ryan Phillippe 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 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
“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
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed… — Laura Miller 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
“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
“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
“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...as long as we have the choice to read what we want, I suspect Twain and Homer and the rest will always… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking… — J.D. Salinger 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
