Gary Paulsen Quotes

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• A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
• School didn't work for me. I hated it.
• Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left,…
• I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
• Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of…
• I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
• Read like a wolf eats.
• I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it…
• ...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this…
• He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now,…
• He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he…
• I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.
• This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few…
• The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.
• Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
• He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave…
• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget…
• And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
• If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light…

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