Quotes by : Walter Dean Myers

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins....

Reading is not optional.

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring....

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver,....

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

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....

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.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise