179 Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

Reading is not optional.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.