Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
“pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
“People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
“Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
“Love came to me, but it Just wasn't for me. It touched my heart and left it Lying on the shore, and Love smiled… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
“That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share
