Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race… — 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
![“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 had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out…” quote by Walter Dean Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/034/walter-dean-myers-2582_flats_we-re-suggesting-that-kids-are-missing-s_1425344.jpg)
