Louis Sachar Quotes
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The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
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I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
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Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
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I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
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Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard
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But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!
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The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
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I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
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What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.
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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.
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Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.
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Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!
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It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
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I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.
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Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?