Louis Sachar Quotes
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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?
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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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A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
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Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.
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When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard
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I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
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Not everyone is as nice as us.
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Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
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You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
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I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.
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In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.