Norton Juster Quotes
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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
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I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.
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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.
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To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
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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
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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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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.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.