Louis Sachar Quotes

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

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.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

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!

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

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

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.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

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.

You have only one life, make the most of it

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

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.

Not everyone is as nice as us.

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.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

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.

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.

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.

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

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.

If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo-oo-oon, If only, if only.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

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.

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.

Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.