The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with...… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Life laughs at me now, Sad, forsaken clown. Dreams crumble and fall. They die silently. Where is there to turn to? Where… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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