10 inspirational j.d. salinger quotes on success

  • I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
  • If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
  • Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
  • I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
  • A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
  • I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
  • I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
  • I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
  • It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
  • One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.