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J. D. Salinger Quotes about Reading

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She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J. D. Salinger
Girl, Reading, Together
"A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

J. D. Salinger
Book, Reading, Writing

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. That doesn't happen much, though.

J. D. Salinger
Book, Reading, Memorable
Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

The sentence im reading is terrific.

J. D. Salinger
Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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.

J. D. Salinger
Book, Teaching, Reading
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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