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Louis Sachar Biography

Louis Sachar (/ˈsækər/ SAK-ər; born March 20, 1954) is an American writer of children's books. He is best known for the Wayside School series and Holes.

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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

Fall, Sunset, Thinking, Told, Toni, Wave

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.

Fix, Messed, Messed Up, Responsible, Up To You

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

Chinese, Eat, Food, May, Ruined

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.

Become, Book, Fun, Kids, Result, Writing

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.

Club, Five, Morning, Times, Two, Writing

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.

Hope, Learn, Mistake, Remembers Everything, Same, Two

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.

Eat, Eating, Safe, Stories, Warning

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.

Book, Change, Mean, Six, Stories

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

Breakfast, Lake, Lakes, Replaced, Spoons

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

Dangerous, Rattle, Rattlesnakes, Would Be

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.

Book, Having, Movie, Novel, Play, Thinking

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.

Decision, Editors, Novel, Welcome, Write, Writing

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.

Account, Digging, Digging A Hole, Dirty, Know, Pigs

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

Believable, Highly, Impossible, Improbable

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

Decision, God, Holes, Make, Punish

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Die, Dimension, Dimensions, Idea, Ideas, Waiting

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

Know, Like, Not Stupid, Stupid, Thinking, Thinks

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

Children, Condescend, Liked, Reading, Teacher, Web

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.

Adults, Book, Guess, Reads, Write, Writing

School just speeds things up. . . Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

Sadness, School, Speeds, Take, Years

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