Norton Juster's Profile
Brief about Norton Juster: By info that we know Norton Juster was born at 1929-06-02. And also Norton Juster is American Architect.
Some Norton Juster's quotes. Goto "Norton Juster's quotation" section for more.But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
Tags: Best, Trying, WorkingI write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Tags: Best, Morning, WriteOne of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
Tags: Kids, Once, ProblemsPeople always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
Tags: Ask, Heard, InfluencesThere are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Tags: Bad, Books, GoodWhen you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
Tags: Fact, Learn, YoungAnd 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.
Tags: Book, End, WritingI 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.
Tags: Book, Experience, WritingI 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.
Tags: Idea, Remember, SchoolI 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.
Tags: Kids, Learning, RealizeIt 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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