I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
Walter Dean MyersThat'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.
Walter Dean MyersI want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
Walter Dean MyersEach 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.
Walter Dean Myers