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You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
Louis Sachar
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Louis Sachar
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 20
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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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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.
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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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Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.
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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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The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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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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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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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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I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
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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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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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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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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.
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The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
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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 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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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.
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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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