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Jack Gantos Biography

Jack Gantos (born July 2, 1951) is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos, and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2014. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.

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It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

Book, Come, Imagination, Know, Mind

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished. ' -Grandma

Gets, Grandma, Middle, Miserable, Trapped

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

Back, Book, Dog, Lead, Write, Writing

Because each book has its own special perfume.

Book, Perfume, Special

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

Junk, Loser, Mind, Orderly, Simple

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

Animal, Care, Elephants, Tail, Thinking, Wanders

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

Heart, Hope, Kids, Medication, Settling

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Character, Decision, Decisions, Test, Tests

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

Deal, Faces, Hand, Hands, Make, Problem

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Admiration, Book, Dumb, Envy, Parts

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

History, Lie, Lying, Soul, Wicked

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Battle, War, Win, Winning

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Black, Entire, Ink, Names, Patti

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

Bend, Goal, Hockey, Kitchen, Take, Thin

. . . who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

Being Yourself, Happy, Parent, Parents, Self, Self Love