Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

The latter film received the 1965 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Although he has retired from architecture he still writes. 71-85568)— illustrated by Arnold Roth
So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America 1865-1895 (editor) (1979) (ISBN 0-670-65483-3) — non-fiction
Otter Nonsense (1982) (ISBN 0-399-20932-8) — illustrated by Eric Carle
As: A Surfeit of Similes (1989) (ISBN 0-688-08139-8)
A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America (1996) (ISBN 1-55591-250-8) — non-fiction
The Hello Goodbye Window (2005) (ISBN 0-7868-0914-0) — illustrated by Chris Raschka
Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (2008) (ISBN 9780439929431) - illustrated by Chris Raschka
The Odious Ogre (2010) (ISBN 0-545-16202-5) - Illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Neville (2011) (ISBN 0375867651/ISBN 978-0375867651) - illustrated by G.

Norton Juster (born June 2 1929) is an American architect and author.