Julius Lester Quotes

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• Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
• I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see…
• Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings
• The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
• Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe…
• When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer…
• Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.
• A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that…
• To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if…
• Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
• Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We…
• It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.
• Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
• How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?
• Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
• If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you…
• But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree…
• But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards
• We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
• I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

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