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This week in quotes: J.D. Salinger edition

“Am hoping there’s 2,000,000 words worth of unpublished Salinger books unleashed into the system now that he’s dead. He was nuts.” – Douglas Coupland’s twitter feed

“The Catcher in the Rye is one of those rare works of art whose influence reaches beyond those who have actually read it or even heard of it. Among the more notable works caught in its backdraft, there could be no On the Road, no Less Than Zero (nor, more locally, A Complicated Kindness) without The Catcher in the Rye. And there could be no James Dean – nor, more importantly, the generations who worked so hard to be James Dean – without Holden Caulfield.” – Andrew Pyper in The Globe & Mail

“Yeah!! Thank God he’s finally dead. I’ve been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight!!!” – Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero, from Twitter

“[Salinger] seldom spoke to the press again, except in 1974 when, trying to fend off the unauthorized publication of his uncollected stories, he told a reporter from The Times: ‘There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.’” – Charles McGrath in The New York Times

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