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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Walter Dean Myers

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
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That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
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Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.
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What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
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Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
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But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
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New York is my favorite city.
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
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On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
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How deep is your game?
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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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