Walter Dean Myers Quotes

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn’t guilty.

Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I’ve tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I’m made Nothing.

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart – often for years – until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me – because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt.

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.