D. Salinger
D. Salinger
attitude writing men
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
writing men thinking
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
years feelings obscurity
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
fall kids say-anything
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.
horse crazy thinking
Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
house manhattan might
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
children my-best-friend facts
Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
opposites scare not-afraid
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.
stars shining crafts
Are all your stars shining?
converses
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
apples bunch adam-and-eve
I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
realizing hard knows
I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
foxes littles grapes
I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
ifs
if somebody at least listens it not too bad