Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myerswas an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.
Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing.
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
I write in a small office at home.
Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.