Walter Dean Myers
"I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books."
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"I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books."
"كنتُ أُعرّض للمضايقة إن عدتُ بكتبي إلى المنزل. لذا، كنتُ أحمل كيساً ورقياً إلى المكتبة، أضع فيه كتبي وأعود بها خفيةً إلى الدار. لم يكن الأمر أنني كنتُ أخشى سخريتهم، فما كنتُ لأتردد لحظة في ضربهم، غير أنني كنتُ أشعر بقليل من الخجل، لمجرد امتلاكي للكتب."
Walter Dean Myers
"My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic."
"كان موت أخي الأصغر في فيتنام باعثًا على الصحو والتأمل معًا. وفي "ملائكة ساقطة"، أردتُ أن أُبدّد فكرة الحرب كشيء رومانسي أو بطوليّ على نحوٍ مُبسّط."
Walter Dean Myers
"I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years."
"شاهدتُ باليه "بحيرة البجع" في طفولتي، لكنني لم أدرك الأهمية البالغة للتهديد المستمر بالعنف إلا عندما رأيتُ عرضاً من بطولة إريك برون وأنا راشد. هذا التناقض بين الجمال الفائق والرشاقة، وخلفية الشر المحض، ظلّ عالقاً بذهني لسنوات."
Walter Dean Myers
"I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it."
"أرى صعوبةً على الشباب في الإقرار بذكائهم، وفي الاعتراف بكونهم قُرّاء. أرى أطفالًا يخجلون من قراءة الكتب، ويخجلون من أن يراهم الناس يفعلون ذلك."
Walter Dean Myers
"I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me."
Walter Dean Myers
"There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature."
Walter Dean Myers
"One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict."
Walter Dean Myers
"I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings."
Walter Dean Myers
"All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it."
Walter Dean Myers
"We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional."
Walter Dean Myers
"Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead."
Walter Dean Myers
"Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge."
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