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Book Quotes by Walter Dean Myers
- I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.…
- It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who…
- Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
- What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and…
- I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic…
- Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a…
- I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each…
- I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book.…
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- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood