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
reason
But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
octopus phantom-tollbooth heard
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
smell gone phantom-tollbooth
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
tongue sound caught
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
buns care dukes
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
infinity phantom-tollbooth poor
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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.
valleys residents
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
holiday care doing-nothing
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
phantom-tollbooth
Many of the things which can never be, often are.
american-architect books writers written
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.