Walter Dean Myers Book Quotes

#1. Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Vikram Seth

#2. What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

Walter Dean Myers

#3. Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

Walter Dean Myers

#4. Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

Michael Jordan

#5. Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Walter Dean Myers

#6. My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

Robert Polidori

#7. Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Yogi Berra

#8. But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

Philip Yancey

#9. was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do.

Karin Tanabe

#10. Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."
from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

Chris Van Allsburg

#11. I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

Walter Dean Myers