Salinger Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches
— Patricia Highsmith
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Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the…
— Alex Cox
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A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
— Edward Abbey
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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply…
— Joyce Maynard
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Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the…
— Joyce Maynard
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I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to…
— Stephen Metcalf
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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been…
— Joyce Maynard
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They…
— Billy Joel
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I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would…
— Regina Spektor
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then…
— Garrett Hedlund
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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which…
— John Krasinski
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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
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
— Joyce Maynard
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I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought,…
— Joyce Maynard
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As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my…
— J D Salinger
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(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock
— Stephen Colbert
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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
Who Wrote These Salinger Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Salinger Quotes as follows: