J. D. Salinger Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Want, Holden Caulfield

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Literature, Suitcases

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Illiterate

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Literature, Catchers

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Unhappy, Would Be

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Car, Literature

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

• I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• People never believe you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, People, Literature

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Religious, Agony, People

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Lying, Literature

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Knows, Do You Know

• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, People, Actors

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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