The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.
She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.
Gary Paulsen – “If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.
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.
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.
Read like a wolf eats.
Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life – if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
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.
We make a mistake in thinking we own pets – the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination – except that it was all reality.
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.
I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated – it’s all bad.