Walter Dean Myers Quotes

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

To the stars through thorns.

If things aren't going well there's always going to be pressure that comes with it.

Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.

You never want to have a stumble, but it happens sometimes. It happens, and you get through things.

I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Sometimes it is hell, trying to get to heaven.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.