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1. "But I'm taking small steps'Cause I don't know where I'm goingI'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say.Small steps,Trying to pull myself togetherAnd maybe I'll discoverA clue along the way!" ~ Louis Sachar

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

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

4. "The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing." ~ Louis Sachar

5. "Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?" ~ Louis Sachar

6. "Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you." ~ Louis Sachar

7. "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?" ~ Louis Sachar

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

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

10. "I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food." ~ Louis Sachar

11. "He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a gold star. They don't give gold stars to monsters." ~ Louis Sachar

12. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

13. "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" ~ Louis Sachar

14. "When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions." ~ Louis Sachar

15. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

16. "I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults." ~ Louis Sachar

17. "I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas." ~ Louis Sachar

18. "The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result." ~ Louis Sachar

19. "My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years." ~ Louis Sachar

20. "Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'" ~ Louis Sachar

21. "'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life." ~ Louis Sachar

22. "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid." ~ Louis Sachar

23. "holes BY LOUIS SACHAR"Nearly everything in the room was broken; the TV, the pinball machine, the furniture. Even the people looked broken, with their worn out bodies sprawled over the various chairs and sofas." (p.43) This is Stanley's view of the "wreck room" at Camp Green Lake. It is the one place the boys are allowed to relax somewhat and they have trashed it. The inhumanity of the camp has possessed the boys. Stanley sees this room as a reminder that the boys have the capacity for violence, and he does not want to mess with the other campers." ~ Louis Sachar

24. "When the shoes first fell from the sky,he remembered thinking that destiny had struck him. Now he thought so again. It was more than a coincidence. It had to be destiny." ~ Louis Sachar

25. "Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had absorbed his energy and now acted like a kind of giant magnet pulling him toward it. After a while he became aware of a foul odor. At first he thought it came from Zero, but it seemed to be in the air, hanging heavy all around him. He also noticed that the ground wasn't as steep anymore. As the ground flattened, a huge stone precipice rose up ahead of him, just barely visible in the" ~ Louis Sachar

26. "The bark on the tree was just a little softer." ~ Louis Sachar

27. "You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy." ~ Louis Sachar

28. "Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle." ~ Louis Sachar

29. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

30. "You make the decision: Whom did God punish?" ~ Louis Sachar

31. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

32. "Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down,Wayside school is falling down my fair lady.Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground,Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady.Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore,Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady.We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more,We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady." ~ Louis Sachar

33. "You're a caring, thoughtful, considerate human being. Maybe that is a curse in this cold world we live in. You have the soul of a poet. —Mrs. Bayfield, to David" ~ Louis Sachar

34. "I do not like Jeff from, There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom, because in the beginning of the story he was just pretended to be Bradley's friend which I thought was a little rude because Bradley needed a real friend that would help him." ~ Louis Sachar

35. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

36. "Need help new member" ~ Louis Sachar

37. "Friends always break even." ~ Louis Sachar

38. "And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush."What do you have?" asked Sharie."Potato salad"."What else is there?" asked Sharie."Nothing" said Miss Mush."Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that.""Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush."No,nothing." said Sharie." ~ Louis Sachar

39. "offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries." ~ Louis Sachar

40. "Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us." ~ Louis Sachar

41. "I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut." ~ Louis Sachar

42. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

43. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

44. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

45. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

46. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

47. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

48. "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." ~ Louis Sachar

49. "I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more." ~ Louis Sachar

50. "He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him." ~ Louis Sachar

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