
Nothing in life is easy. —
Louis Sachar

Right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm. —
Louis Sachar

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. —
Louis Sachar

You're not completely worthless. —
Louis Sachar

You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid. —
Louis Sachar

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. —
Louis Sachar

Twenty-five Percent Slam —
Louis Sachar

You make the decision: Whom did God punish? —
Louis Sachar

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing. —
Louis Sachar

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy. —
Louis Sachar

He's not my dad," Kaira said. "Just because he married my - As soon as I turn eighteen I'm firing his ass! Then I'll call you. —
Louis Sachar

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! —
Louis Sachar

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up. —
Louis Sachar

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you?
What about Chinese children? —
Louis Sachar

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

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. —
Louis Sachar

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

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

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. —
Louis Sachar

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. —
Louis Sachar

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. —
Louis Sachar

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

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence. —
Louis Sachar

My dog, Pugsy, was hit by a car, —
Louis Sachar

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you. —
Louis Sachar

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. —
Louis Sachar

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. —
Abram L. Sachar

Offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries. —
Louis Sachar