Norton Juster Quotes & Sayings

“I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.”

“But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.”

“A good book written for children can be read by adults.”

“There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.”

“People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.”

“I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.”

“The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.”

“I think really good books can be read by anybody.”

“One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.”

“When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.”