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• You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

  Louis Sachar

  Decision, Holes

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.115, Yearling

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• When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Grandfather

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• I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Mean, Stories

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• Not everyone is as nice as us.

  Louis Sachar

  Nice

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• If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

  Louis Sachar

  Lonely, Sky, Tree

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.39, Yearling

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• I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

  Louis Sachar

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

  Louis Sachar

  Chinese, May, Ruined

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Small Steps”, p.235, A&C Black

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• The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

  Louis Sachar

  Tree, Littles, Holes

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.8, Yearling

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

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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• It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

  Louis Sachar

  Girl, Hate, Littles

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.97, A&C Black

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Sunset, Thinking

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

  Louis Sachar

  Reality, Would Be, May

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.68, A&C Black

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• 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!

  Louis Sachar

  Song, Holiday, Giving

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger”, p.39, A&C Black

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• I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.

  Louis Sachar

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

  Louis Sachar

  Hero, School, My Favorite

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• I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Play

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• It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Writing, Adults

  "Younger Audiences". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 24, 1998.

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

  Louis Sachar

  Children, Kids, Chinese

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• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• A lot of people don't believe in curses.
  A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

  Louis Sachar

  Believe, Yellow, Differences

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.41, Yearling

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• The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

  Louis Sachar

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

  Louis Sachar

  Giving, Dollars, Spit

  Louis Sachar (2011). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom”, p.29, Yearling

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• I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

  Louis Sachar

  Mistake, Remembers Everything, Two

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.70, A&C Black

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• When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

  Louis Sachar

  Writing, Editors, Decision

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• The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

  Louis Sachar

  Sex, Teenage, Drinking

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. 2008.

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