Gary Paulsen Quotes

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Libro, Lectura, Novelistas

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Matter, Problem, No Matter What

  Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Reserve

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Shelf Life: Stories by the Book”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

  Gary Paulsen

  Song, Stupid, Book

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• 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.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Light, Smell

  Gary Paulsen (2014). “The Winter Room”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Problema, resolver

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Mistake, Animal, Thinking

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Interview with A.C. Fuller, acfuller.com.

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• 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.

  Gary Paulsen

  Patience, Thinking, Waiting

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

  Gary Paulsen

  Reading, Water, Dying

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• 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 that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Safe, Normal

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Notes from the Dog”, p.75, Wendy Lamb Books

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Libertad

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• 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 intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Kids, Writing

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• Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

  Gary Paulsen

  Crazy, People, Insane

  Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• 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 and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

  Gary Paulsen

  Sorry, Dark, Long

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gary Paulsen

  School, Hated

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Children, War, Land

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Rivers, Buckets, Stories

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• 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.

  Gary Paulsen

  Hurt, Dark, Self

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Reality, Imagination, Back And Forth

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

  Gary Paulsen

  Ocean, Light, Air

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Zero, Stories, Topics

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Llevo casi toda mi vida leyendo e investigando diversos aspectos de la historia: el Londres de Dickens, las batallas navales de Nelson, las exploraciones náuticas de Magallanes, las armas y batallas y los personajes clave de la Guerra Civil estadounidense. Cojo un libro aquí o allá, veo un documental o hablo con un experto en la materia, y mi curiosidad por un área de estudio y descubrimiento siempre me lleva a otra.

  Gary Paulsen

  Guerra, Libro, Lectura

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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