Jim Thomas

“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
― Michael Chabon

“Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey