179 Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

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

It’s a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken.

I couldn’t speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

Idiots don’t know they’re idiots, which is unfortunate.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what’s hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he’s worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it’s this wonderful adjunct.

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I’m in.

I know I’m tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I’m just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can’t dig that? You think I want to live like I’m somebody’s throwaway?