Norton Juster quotes

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. (Norton Juster)
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it. View quote
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. View quote
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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. View quote
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it. View quote
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A good book written for children can be read by adults. View quote
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... I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. View quote
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. (Norton Juster)
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. View quote
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Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. View quote
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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man. View quote
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet. View quote
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find,” he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. View quote
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again. View quote
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You see... it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us? View quote
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. View quote
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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. View quote
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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. (Norton Juster)
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. View quote
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Norton Juster

Norton Juster

Occupation: American Architect
Born: June 2, 1929
Died: March 8, 2021
Quotes count: 78

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