Norton Juster Quotes
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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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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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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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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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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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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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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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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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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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.