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
two yellow years
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
ears written-word unwritten
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.
hands people touching
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
sun sunny said
Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.
good-night stars heart
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.
girl looks littles
The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
exclamation-points paradise observation
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
inspirational happiness happy
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
drunk one-day blind
I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
art writing perfection
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
liking-someone sick people
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
growing-up men maturity
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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.
coffee mean annoying
That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.