Quotes by : Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World....

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical....

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher....

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change....

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do....

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me....

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning....