Norton Juster Quotes
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.