Norton Juster Quotes

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Real men read my books.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.