Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

25-Jan-2021

United States

Writer

Walter Dean Myers was a prominent American writer who considered young minds to be his true audience and specialized in writing books for children and young adults. His schooling started at around the age of six, and he dropped out from the senior school at seventeen. His schooling days were difficult, owing to his speech impairment. He understood that he had to be intellectual if he were to have a bright future. But having a dysfunctional family and poverty meant that he had to drop out from school and earn. He joined the army at 17, but did not stop writing. He was discharged after four years in the army, and earned a graduation from ‘Empire State College’, in arts. His first book was, ‘Where Does the Day go’, a picture book for kids. After this, he published more than 110 acclaimed titles. The following quotations and thoughts by the distinguished writer which have been extracted from the vast sea of his work will give you a glimpse of his creative mind. Read on the compilation of quotes and sayings by Walter Dean Myers that will teach you how to win against all odds.

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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

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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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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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Reading is not optional.

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Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

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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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They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

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The beast is the monster that destroys your dream

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