People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

Next quotes

• Norton Juster:

  There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

• Norton Juster:

  When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it does

• Norton Juster:

  I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know.

• Norton Juster:

  The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the exp

• Norton Juster:

  And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between c

• Norton Juster:

  But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to

• Norton Juster:

  I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how

• Norton Juster:

  I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, an

• Norton Juster:

  It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something

• Charlie Sifford:

  Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butt