Walter Dean Myers Quotes


I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.


Citations

Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise Over Fallujah. Scholastic Press, 2008.

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Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
  • Born: August 12, 1937
  • Died: July 1, 2014
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Walter Dean Myers was a writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War.