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Louis Sachar
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 20
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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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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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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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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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Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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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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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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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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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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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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You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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Not everyone is as nice as us.
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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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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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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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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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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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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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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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