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Norton Juster is an American author renowned for his children's literature. His most famous work, 'Charlotte's Web,' has been a beloved classic since its publication in 1952. Beyond children's literature, Juster has also ventured into adult fiction and poetry.

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

Book Periods Distinction Good Book

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“Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.”

Ifs Happens Would Be Names Four Imagine Hopeless Plus

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“That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.”

Way Reason Easy Simple Conclusion You Like It Phantom Tollbooth

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“I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.”

Jobs Effort Habit Terrible Tasks Monsters Demon Worthless Petty

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“No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.”

Happens Lasts Cities Attention Streets Building Strange Grew Paid Moved Disappear Invisible Faster Strange Things Faded Nobody Cares

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“Freedom is not a license for chaos.”

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

People Asks Heard Influence Bunch Citing

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“A good book written for children can be read by adults”

Children Book Written Adults Good Book

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“And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters”

Knows Way Writing Book Ends Character Stories Might Conversation Pages My Way

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“I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth”

People Writing Book Kids Cities Perception Foundation Grants Urban Phantoms Books For Kids Phantom Tollbooth

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“But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance”

Knows Trying Turns Loses Absolutes Enthusiasm Supposed To Be Best Things Vengeance Doing You

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“I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea”

Thinking Looks Kind Ideas Kids School Remember Interesting Teacher Remember When Interesting Ideas Schools And Teachers

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“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”

Thinking Knows Kids Realizing Exciting Relate

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“I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.”

Writing I Can Half Morning

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“I think really good books can be read by anybody.”

Thinking Book Good Book

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“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.”

Want Problem Kids Hundred Like Something

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“To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.”

Thinking Children Nature Adults

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About the Author

Born: June 2, 1929
Known for: Author
Quotes: 117

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