Norton Juster Quotes


When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. - Norton Juster



Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. - Norton Juster



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