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
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.
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.
people
People are always ruining things for you.
i-hate-you mean puddles
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
lying down-and sometimes
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
laughing
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.