Catcher In The Rye Ackley Quotes

#1. My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Deborah Moggach

#2. Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Jim Crace

#4. For what is most dreaded is not the agony of dying, nor yet the strange impossibility that when we do not exist we should suffer for not existing. What is dreaded is the defeat of a present will directed upon life and its various undertakings.

George Santanyana

#5. For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Francoise Sagan

#6. My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

Clara Shih