Salinger Quotes

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. (Alex Cox)

J. D. Salinger has suggested that authors should be known for their work, not themselves, and in this I concur. It's not that I want to be a hermit, but I do want to maintain some privacy for myself and my sanity.

Michael A. Stackpole

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

Regina Spektor

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.

Ethan Hawke

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Patricia Highsmith

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

John Krasinski

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Joyce Maynard

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Joyce Maynard

I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

Garrett Hedlund

Hey there Salinger, what did you do? (Tomas Kalnoky)

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Louis Sachar