Norton Juster
Norton Juster
Norton Justeris an American academic, architect, and popular writer. He is best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 June 1929
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Norton Juster quotes about
years way return
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
rain thinking somewhere-else
I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?
effort chins can-do
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
moving cabinets dukes
Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.
expectations phantom-tollbooth
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
ignorance knowledge swimming
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
wasting-time phantom-tollbooth killing
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
sensitive knows
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
facts pieces information
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
eye phantom-tollbooth noticing
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
nature children thinking
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
kids want problem
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
kids thinking realizing
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
boys causes
Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.