Quote by Walter Dean Myers Download Open image ““once i began to read I began to exist”” — Walter Dean Myers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A constant reader is one who always returns to his first loves.” — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“I’m going to start by telling you a story, because anything that was ever worth knowing began with ‘once upon a time.’ ” “As” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“From the moment that you opened your eyes and took your first breath your story began.” — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“I grinned. “Start at the beginning.” “Once upon a time---“ “It did not start with “Once upon a time.” “No? It should have. All… — Melanie Karsak Copy Share Image
“I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart” — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.” — Craig Raine 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
