J D Salinger > Quotes

“Who wants flowers when they're dead? Nobody.”
― J D Salinger

“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

“Si realmente les interesa lo que voy a contarles, probablemente lo primero que querrán saber es dónde nací, y lo asquerosa que fue mi infancia, y qué hacían mis padres antes de tenerme a mí, y todas esas gilipolleces estilo David Copperfield, pero si quieren saber la verdad no tengo ganas de hablar de eso”
― J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. Penguin Fiction 1248

“I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”
― J D Salinger