Destroyed Quote by Whit Stillman

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…

— Whit Stillman

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because…

— Robert Cormier

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for…

— Elizabeth Bishop

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

— Irwin Shaw

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

“I’m always thrilled,” wrote Alan Cheuse, emphasizing the novelty and, perhaps, the faint air of slumming that attends the notion of McCarthy’s move to…

— Michael Chabon

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

— Antoni Porowski

“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at him, and…

— Sophie Hannah

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play…

— Jane Smiley

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think…

— James Frey

“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected…

— Emma Straub