Joanna Rakoff
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My Salinger Year
14 editions
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published
2008
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A Fortunate Age
16 editions
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published
2009
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“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
― My Salinger Year
― My Salinger Year
“So we’re all doing a pretty good job not revealing our emotions, right? But if you can’t reveal your emotions, how do you go on? What do you do with them? Because, you see, I keep crying at odd moments.”
― My Salinger Year
― My Salinger Year
“I know, I said reflexively, but I didn't. I didn't want to be normal. I wanted to be extraordinary. I wanted to write novels and make films and speak ten languages and travel around the world.”
― My Salinger Year
― My Salinger Year