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.

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.

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

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.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

You have only one life, make the most of it

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

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.