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Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I write in a small office at home.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014

Topics

Home Small Write Office I Write

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Work Small Book Reading Plan You

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

Whatever Use E-Mail

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

Life Happy Me My Life Being Happy

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

Daughter Romantic School People Over

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created, and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it.

Amandla Stenberg

People Black Create Important Way

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

Butterfly Everyone Social Because He

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

Moment People Looking Energy Doing

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

Think Problem Sometimes Things Just

I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

Work Great Myself Travel People You

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Women Men Cry Bear See

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Heart Valentine's Day Soul Lips You

I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

Good I Am People Election Said Way

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