I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“She only really enjoyed her own company. She tolerated mine, but fundamentally she was a recluse at heart, like J.D. Salinger or… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Salinger was not cutesy. His work was not nostalgic. These were not fairy tales about child geniuses traipsing the streets of Old… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like most of Salinger's characters, she wouldn't be such a fuckup, you felt, if these fucked-up things didn't keep happening to her.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins 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
“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“So what do you think?’ He asked, holding up the book. ‘I think Salinger is a closet paedophile,’ I replied placidly and… — J.D. Gallagher 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 am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.” — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.” — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt… — Joyce Maynard 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
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,… — Stephen Metcalf 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
“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
![“Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!” quote by Whit Stillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/whit-stillman-16157_destroyed_mary-mccarthy-and-that-mr-intellectual-k_1756044.jpg)
![“I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.” quote by Whit Stillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/whit-stillman-16157_adapted_i-think-a-lot-of-cosmopolitans-is-marked_422570.jpg)
