Quotes by Norton Juster

About Norton Juster:

Norton Juster is an American academic, architect, and popular writer. He is best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Norton Juster

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.

Norton Juster

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.

Norton Juster

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

Norton Juster

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

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And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Norton Juster

…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.

Norton Juster

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never h...

Norton Juster

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

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A good book written for children can be read by adults.

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I think really good books can be read by anybody.

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

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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

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Author Bio

  • NameNorton Juster
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer, academic, and architect
  • BornJune 2, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Architect