Quote

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Norton Juster

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
Architect
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Good
Think
Thinking
Anybody
Books
Read
Book
Really

More quotes by Norton Juster

Image
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
Norton Juster
Image
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
Norton Juster
Image
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
Norton Juster
Image
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
Norton Juster
Image
A good book written for children can be read by adults
Norton Juster
Image
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
Norton Juster
Image
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Norton Juster
Image
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
Norton Juster
Image
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
Freedom is not a license for chaos.
Norton Juster
Image
You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
Norton Juster
Image
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
Image
And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
Norton Juster