Norton Juster Quotes
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
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That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
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Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
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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.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of
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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.
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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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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.
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