Gary Paulsen quotes

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense. (Gary Paulsen)
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Gary Paulsen
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
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
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
Gary Paulsen
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
Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
Gary Paulsen
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
Gary Paulsen
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
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
Gary Paulsen
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. (Gary Paulsen)
And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
Gary Paulsen
I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.
Gary Paulsen
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
... 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...
Gary Paulsen
He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now... He was alone and there was nothing for him.
Gary Paulsen
School didn't work for me. I hated it.
Gary Paulsen
I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
Gary Paulsen
Read like a wolf eats.
Gary Paulsen