Walter Dean Myers Quotes - Page 4

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• I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Notebook, Exercise, Self

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Trying, Guilty, Convince

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• New York is my favorite city.

  Walter Dean Myers

  New York, Cities, My Favorite

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• 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.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Heart, Years, Stories

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• As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Kids, Cowboy, Color

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Cowboy

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Birthday, Sibling, War

  "A Conversation With Walter Dean Myers About Sunrise Over Fallujah". Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

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  Mother, Song, Sweet

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

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  Children, Athlete, Lawyer

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• Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Idiot, Unfortunate, Knows

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Darius & Twig”, p.7, Harper Collins

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

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  Believe, America, World

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• 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?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Past, Needs, Helping

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