179 Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

CUT TO: ERNIE, another prisoner, sitting on john, pants down.

Each of us is born with a history already in place.

Maybe being loved wasn’t enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.

When Miss O’Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?

I’m not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I’m looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don’t see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don’t see how to get there.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy. Sometimes the camera moves in so close that you can’t tell what is going on and you just listen to the sounds and guess.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the ‘National Enquirer,’ I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again.

Many teens will see themselves in Myers’ account”.