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
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. — 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
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
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're… — 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
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
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 think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell… — 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
