Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

America believes what’s good for us is good for the world. It’s very difficult to understand that that’s not necessarily true.

America

Believe

World

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

Athlete

Children

Lawyer

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.

Heart

Stories

Years

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I’m forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

Forever

Pain

Shadow

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?

Helping

Needs

Past

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,’ he said. ‘Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.’ —Fletch

Easy

Enemy

Said

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

Generations

Reason

War

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 book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He’s an illustrator of children’s books.

Book

Children

Meaningful

Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me… Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life’s just begun I know you feel it too

Forever

Space

Want

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

Convince

Guilty

Trying

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America

Athlete

Basketball

Believe

Blessed

Book

Brain

Children

Cities

Convince

Corporations

Country

Curls

Dad

Different

Dinner

Dream

Easy

Emotional

Ends

Enemy

Enjoy

Feelings

Fighting

Forever

Frustrated

Games

Garbage Cans

Gay

Generations

Guilty

Hands

Happened

Happenings

Heart

Helping

Idiot

Important

Iraq

Kids

Knows

Lawyer

Life Is

Looks

Magazines

Matter

Mean

Meaningful

Men

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Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

America believes what’s good for us is good for the world. It’s very difficult to understand that that’s not necessarily true.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

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.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I’m forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

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?

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,’ he said. ‘Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.’ —Fletch

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

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 book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He’s an illustrator of children’s books.

Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me… Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life’s just begun I know you feel it too

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

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