Louis Sachar Quotes

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.

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.

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

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

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

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

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

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

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.

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?