Gary Paulsen Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Reading, Novelists

• 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

• 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.

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Book

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

  Gary Paulsen

  War, Book, Reading

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

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