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We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them. — Gary Paulsen

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal. — Gary Paulsen

Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And — Gary Paulsen

But I'm your brother." Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. "You," she announced, "are a turd in the punch bowl of life. — Gary Paulsen

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He — Gary Paulsen

This is the final book about Brian — Gary Paulsen

he's not stupid, he's just not observant. — Gary Paulsen

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose. — Gary Paulsen

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat. — Gary Paulsen

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night. — Gary Paulsen

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language. — Gary Paulsen

The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise. — Gary Paulsen

The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping. — Gary Paulsen

discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He — Gary Paulsen

It must have been a snapper — Gary Paulsen

There were these things to do. — Gary Paulsen

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again. — Gary Paulsen

As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over. — Gary Paulsen

He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The — Gary Paulsen

You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man. — Gary Paulsen

He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside. — Gary Paulsen

Read like a wolf eats. — Gary Paulsen

[Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die... — Gary Paulsen

Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some. — Gary Paulsen

Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It — Gary Paulsen

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners. — Gary Paulsen

Then we knew he was lying. — Gary Paulsen

You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn. — Gary Paulsen

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination
except that it was all reality. — Gary Paulsen

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. — Gary Paulsen

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers. — Gary Paulsen

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it — Gary Paulsen

How could he? The — Gary Paulsen

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen. — Gary Paulsen

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about. — Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards. — Gary Paulsen

Running with dogs is like dancing with winter — Gary Paulsen

School didn't work for me. I hated it. — Gary Paulsen

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth. — Gary Paulsen

The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry. — Gary Paulsen

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She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful. — Gary Paulsen

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me. — Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! — Gary Paulsen

He could not at first leave the fire. It — Gary Paulsen

The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce. — Gary Paulsen

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense. — Gary Paulsen

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it. — Gary Paulsen

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow. — Gary Paulsen

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails. — Gary Paulsen

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All — Gary Paulsen

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come. — Gary Paulsen

moose was a moose. There — Gary Paulsen

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin. — Gary Paulsen

Everything was green, so green it went into him. — Gary Paulsen

There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe.
All simple things. All fixable things. — Gary Paulsen

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc. — Gary Paulsen