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Walter Dean Myers Quotes

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good World America True Understand

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

Jesse Eisenberg

Yourself You Acting Class Much

I was an international studies major.

International Major Studies

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Merab Mamardashvili

Man Product Changes Invisible Hard

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Me Outside Inspired Who Like Most

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

History Think Smoke Right About

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

Child Hollywood Never Parties Any

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Money I Can Salary Horror Need Open

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Good Me Say Matter Write They Say

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Robbie Williams

Responsibility Solo Act Being Huge

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

Art Hollywood Competitive Theater

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Child World Think Doing You Right

I'd love to jump in a spaceship and shoot myself to the moon, where I'll paint the word 'Love.' So when people step outside before they go to bed and look up to see it, they'll just dream of love.

Love Myself Step People Moon Look

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