More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
