J. D. Salinger on Books
Browse 4 quotations attributed to J. D. Salinger, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #144578: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone …"
Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #232719: "The Letters to J. D. Salinger book"
4 Quotes by J. D. Salinger on Books
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
"The Letters to J. D. Salinger book"
"If there is an amateur reader still left in the world — or anybody who just reads and runs — I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children."
"I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library."