More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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.
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.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.