J. D. Salinger

Novelist

72 Quotes

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Tanda-tanda ketidakmatangan tampak pada orang yang ingin mati dengan mulia untuk suatu alasan, sedangkan tanda-tanda kedewasaan terlihat pada orang yang ingin hidup dengan rendah hati untuk orang lain.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

Demikian halnya gadis-gadis. Setiap kali mereka melakukan sesuatu yang manis, bahkan jika mereka tidak begitu cantik, atau bahkan jika mereka agak-agak bodoh, kau akan jatuh cinta dengan mereka, lalu kau tak tahu lagi dimana kau berada. Gadis-gadis, ya Tuhan. Mereka bisa membuatmu gila. Mereka benar-benar bisa.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

People never believe you.

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