Top 34 Quotes by J. D. Salinger

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

People never believe you.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.