Norton Juster Quotes
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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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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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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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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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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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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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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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 some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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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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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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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
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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.