Norton Juster

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. ↗

— Norton Juster

#sense #nonsense

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. ↗

— Norton Juster

#learning #phantom-tollbooth #education

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible. ↗

— Norton Juster

#inspirational

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ↗

— Norton Juster

#humor

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

— Norton Juster

#children #good #good book #read #written

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. ↗

— Norton Juster

#connect #fact #information #learn #piece

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. ↗

— Norton Juster

#books #distinction #good #period

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way. ↗

— Norton Juster

#communicating #expectation #i #i think #important

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of. ↗

— Norton Juster

#always #ask #bunch #cite #heard

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. ↗

— Norton Juster

#kids #like #once #problems #read