“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Meet anybody for a drink. Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...but I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words, “Dear God, life is hell.” Nothing led up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I believe I essentially remain what I have always been—a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Never wants to what?” Meet anybody for a drink . Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Виж какво, седнеш ли да пишеш, винаги гледай да се сещаш, че преди да станеш писател, дълго време си бил читател. Запечатал… — J.D. Salinger 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 edge of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another… — j.d. salinger Copy Share Image
