More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
