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Norton Juster Quotes

American - Architect | June 2, 1929 -

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

People Never Ask Always Influences

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Morning Best Day I Can Write Half

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

Good Children Book Good Book Read

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Good Think Books Read I Think

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.

Problems You Want Something Kids

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Good Bad Books Period Distinction

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Learn You Information Young Anything

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

Learning Think Know More Begin Get

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.

Start Book Think Important Way Only

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

Writing Book Story End Conversation

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.

Best Doing Enthusiasm You Lose Find

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.

Experience People Writing Book Write

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