Salinger Quotes

“DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.”
― Shane Salerno, Salinger

“A writer writes alone in a room with no distractions. The minute he’s distracted he loses the cathedral in which he must perform, which is himself.”
― Shane Solerno, Salinger

“I am a jerk, but the wrong people mustn't know it....
(from J. D. Salinger's letter to Ernest Hemingway)”
― David Shields, Salinger

“He was a nice boy, but he was the kind of kid who, if you wanted to have a card game, wouldn’t join in.”
― Shane Solerno, Salinger