Quotes by Norton Juster

Norton Juster

…I’ll continue to see things as a child. It’s not so far to fall.

Children

Fall

Phantom Tollbooth

…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.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

Education

Important

School

A good book written for children can be read by adults

Adults

Book

Children

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Gone

Phantom Tollbooth

Smell

Ah, this is fine,” he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words “WHY NOT?” “That’s a good reason for almost anything – a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Reason

Sides

Why Not

AHA!” interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. “Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Book

Boys

Littles

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.

Princess

Sight

Sweet

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

And when I’m writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don’t necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I’m working on, because they’re simply my way of getting to know the characters

Book

Character

Writing

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Adults

Arms

Attention

Beautiful

Begin Again

Bird

Book

Boys

Buns

Can Do

Care

Character

Children

Children Book

Cities

Confusing

Dog

Doing Nothing

Doing You

Dukes

Education

Effort

Eight

Enthusiasm

Expectations

Eye

Fall

Far Away

Feet

Flower

Forget

Giants

Gone

Good Book

Good Morning

Growing Up

Hands

Holiday

Ifs

Ignorance

Important

Inspirational

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Killing

Lasts

Life

Like You

Littles

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Quotes by Norton Juster

Norton Juster

…I’ll continue to see things as a child. It’s not so far to fall.

…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.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Ah, this is fine,” he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words “WHY NOT?” “That’s a good reason for almost anything – a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

AHA!” interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. “Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

And when I’m writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don’t necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I’m working on, because they’re simply my way of getting to know the characters

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