If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before … - J. D. Salinger

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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

J. D. Salinger

If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.

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The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

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Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

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I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.

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