More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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.
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.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
