Quotes about J. D. Salinger

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My hope is that people who grew up on J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, the folk music of Pete Seeger, the protest ballads of Country Joe, the anarchic insolence of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the biting satire of Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, the acid rock of Bob Dylan, the sociology of Paul Goodman and Herbert Marcuse, the Summer of Love and the Days of Rage, will not be content to spend their retirement years on cruise ships or feeding their Social Security checks into slot machines at the nearest casino.

Theodore Roszak

J. D. Salinger has suggested that authors should be known for their work, not themselves, and in this I concur. It's not that I want to be a hermit, but I do want to maintain some privacy for myself and my sanity.

Michael A. Stackpole