Norton Juster Quotes
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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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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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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.
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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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...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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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 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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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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...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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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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.