Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

Maybe people overlook me because of the way I talk or the way I look. I don't know.

Calling this 'The Trial Of Christine Keeler' is clever because it's a re-examination of Christine's life and the trials and tribulations that she went through including the court trial. We as a society are so quick to judge, and no one has been judged quite as much as she has.

I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'

I love when people think I'm not a good receiver.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. "Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.