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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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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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When I began to read, I began to exist
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Reading is not optional.
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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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he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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New York is my favorite city.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
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Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
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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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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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