179 Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.

First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)

Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

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

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.