Woodsong By Gary Paulsen Quotes

#1. I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

Gary Paulsen

#2. I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Henry Miller

#3. I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

#4. Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got "Outlook not so good" right. I don't know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer.

Ryan North

#5. I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Michael K. Williams

#6. Which dreams indeed are ambition;for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. A dream itself is but a shadow.

William Shakespeare

#7. The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.

Gary Paulsen

#8. Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston