Walter Dean Myers Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.”

“If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?”

“And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.”

“I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.”

“I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.”

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

“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.”

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

“Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.”

“My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.”