Gary Paulsen Quotes

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

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 and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

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 had to keep hoping.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

Running with dogs is like dancing with winter

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 was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

...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 was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, " he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

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 and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

This is the final book about Brian