J. D. Salinger Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Reading, Together

  "A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.

• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

• You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Writing

• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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