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Not everyone is as nice as us.
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.
You have only one life, make the most of it
You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!
Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?
I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
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.
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.
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
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.
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.
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
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.
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.
You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.
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!
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard
When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only
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.
Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.
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.
There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
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.
But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!
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.
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.
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.