Norton Juster Quotes

Norton Juster
American Architect
Born: Jun 2, 1929
Book Books Good People Think You
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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. Norton Juster
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A good book written for children can be read by adults. Norton Juster
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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. Norton Juster
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. Norton Juster
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. Norton Juster
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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. Norton Juster
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. Norton Juster
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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea. Norton Juster
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