J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1919
CountryUnited States of America
reading sentences terrific
the sentence im reading is terrific ...
ruins
The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding
swear-to-god terrible madmen
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
fats
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
hate thinking people
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
reading together wedding-speech
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
girl looks littles
The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
writing heard euphemism
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
want literature holden-caulfield
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
distance ideas suits-you
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
laughing
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
distance blood circles
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
running hope crazy
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. 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 to be.
long one-day care
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.