Louis Sachar Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1954

Topics

LifeBestMoneySmallBookThink

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

John Burroughs

WinterMarriageSunSweetGoodbye

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

Jerry Brown

EndRealisticSystemCostStatePut

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

Jello Biafra

GreatPictureBandWindsOutGone

I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.

Amanda Donohoe

WorkLoveBestKnowHowI Love

I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.

Tony Dungy

CollegeFreeGoUpGoingGet

In front of millions of people that paid to see you at your best, who expect you to be in action-figure shape and condition on that particular night for that moment, you've got to deliver.

Rob Van Dam

MomentBestPeopleNightYouSee

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

Romesh Gunesekera

LiveTimePastWritingLossYou

Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time.

Dianne Reeves

TimeMomentBelieveYouProject

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

LiveWritingThoughtPresentYou

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Drake

DayWordsPeopleStrongEndMinds

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Constantin Brancusi

WorkGodJoyMysteryYouLook

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

ActionSuitWord

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