Top 94 Louis Sachar Quotes
#1. If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.
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#2. I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
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#3. Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.
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#4. He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my - As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you.
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#5. Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair - appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.
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#6. When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
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#7. 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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#8. It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.
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#9. 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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#10. I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
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#11. When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)
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#12. Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.
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#13. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.
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#14. If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed
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#15. He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
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#16. The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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#17. With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.
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#18. You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
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#25. I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.
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#26. You're a caring, thoughtful, considerate human being. Maybe that is a curse in this cold world we live in. You have the soul of a poet.
- Mrs. Bayfield, to David
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#27. When the shoes first fell from the sky,he remembered thinking that destiny had struck him. Now he thought so again. It was more than a coincidence. It had to be destiny.
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#28. You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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#30. I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.
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#31. Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
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#33. 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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#34. Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'
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#35. Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. You have only one life, make the most of it
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#39. Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?
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#41. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. (p. 3)
It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right in with the irony that permeates the novel.
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#42. I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
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#43. The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
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#44. He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.
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#45. Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you?
What about Chinese children?
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#46. 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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#47. The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
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#49. How can he be your friend if you don't like him?
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#50. Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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#51. I prefer to use the names their parents gave them
the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
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#55. I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
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#56. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.
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#57. I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
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#58. School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
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#60. The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. If you
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#61. And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush.
"What do you have?" asked Sharie.
"Potato salad".
"What else is there?" asked Sharie.
"Nothing" said Miss Mush.
"Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that."
"Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush.
"No,nothing." said Sharie.
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#62. Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.
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#63. My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
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#64. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!
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#65. Left his great-grandfather to face the hot barren desert. The Warden had left Stanley to face Mr. Sir. Somehow his great-grandfather
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#66. 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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#67. I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing ... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
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#68. It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.
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#69. When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.
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#70. I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.
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#72. Your parents are just trying to do what's best for you," said Carla. "A lot of people think counselors don't belong in schools." She shrugged. "I guess they're afraid I might full your head with all kinds of crazy ideas.
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#73. Stanley took a shower - if you could call it that, ate dinner - if you could call it that, and went to bed - if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.
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#74. We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.
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#76. In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
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#78. You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you
for any of you.
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#79. It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!
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#80. There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
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#81. Offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.
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#85. I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
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#86. If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only
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#87. 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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#88. I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.
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#89. You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
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#90. 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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#91. Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found.
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#92. Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
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#93. Right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm.
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#94. 'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.
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