Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Norton Juster
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
Architect
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Sense
Care
Mean
Long
Nonsense
Make
Choose
Never
Words
Use
More quotes by Norton Juster
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Norton Juster
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
Norton Juster
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Norton Juster
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
I think really good books can be read by anybody.
Norton Juster
Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
Norton Juster
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
Norton Juster
Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.
Norton Juster
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
Norton Juster
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
Norton Juster
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
Norton Juster
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
Norton Juster
When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
Norton Juster
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
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
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
Norton Juster
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
Norton Juster
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
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
Norton Juster
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
Norton Juster