Walter Dean Myers

When I began to read, I began to exist

— Walter Dean Myers

New York is my favorite city.

— Walter Dean Myers

How deep is your game?

— Walter Dean Myers

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

“once i began to read I began to exist”

— Walter Dean Myers

Reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

— Walter Dean Myers

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

— Walter Dean Myers

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

— Walter Dean Myers

“The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.”

— Walter Dean Myers

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

— Walter Dean Myers

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

— Walter Dean Myers

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

— Walter Dean Myers

Each of us is born with a history already in place

— Walter Dean Myers

“Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.”

— Walter Dean Myers

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making…

— Walter Dean Myers

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to…

— Walter Dean Myers

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.”

— Walter Dean Myers

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

— Walter Dean Myers

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a…

— Walter Dean Myers

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was…

— Walter Dean Myers

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Yeah, it’s hard, baby It’s hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it’s hard baby It’s hard right down to…

— Walter Dean Myers

“I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a…

— Walter Dean Myers

Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it…

— Walter Dean Myers

Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever…

— Walter Dean Myers

To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a…

— Walter Dean Myers

“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

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

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up…

— Walter Dean Myers

“In a way it was like a bunch of guys in a game. They were falling behind every minute that passed, but…

— Walter Dean Myers

“When you're young, you make mistakes. The big thing that's different now is that when I was a kid, you could survive…

— Walter Dean Myers

“I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as…

— Walter Dean Myers

“People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with…

— Walter Dean Myers

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

— Walter Dean Myers

“She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic”

— Walter Dean Myers

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

— Walter Dean Myers

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

“It's hard to be brave when you can stumble across a world of hurt around any corner.”

— Walter Dean Myers