Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. — 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… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave… — 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
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school.… — 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… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and… — 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
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
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
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't… — 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 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 talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me. — 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
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
