To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. — Ryan Phillippe 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
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
'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
“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'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
“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
“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
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
When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something… — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for… — Richard Grenell 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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
'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
[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the… — Rob Lowe 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
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
I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always… — Kathryn Stockett 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
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
![“[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/rob-lowe-855_catcher-in-the-rye_the-outsiders-was-all-new-to-me-it-s-bee_1234356.jpg)
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