Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar
Louis Sacharis an American writer of children's books. He is best known for the Wayside School series and Holes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth20 March 1954
CityEast Meadow, NY
CountryUnited States of America
up-to-you responsible messed-up
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.
stupid thinking not-stupid
I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
lakes spoons breakfast
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
You have only one life, make the most of it
alive beats stills
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
ideas voice floating
Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.
lakes green holes
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
zero way worried
Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
zero thinking way
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
fall sunset thinking
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
reality may able
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.
quitting
The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
strange-places people special
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.
hands cards different
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