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 book writing
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
boys college men
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
secret christ fats
There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
fats
Do it for the fat lady!
success boys games
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
strong stuff
oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
thinking feelings trouble
That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.
crazy holden catching
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. I know it's crazy.
girl sexy knows
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
winter ducks
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
artist hunger distraction
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
girl sex pain
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.
war swear-to-god volunteer
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
football hate fall
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.