Gary PaulsenRead like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day. ✨ Interview with A.C. Fuller, acfuller.com.371Reading
Gary PaulsenHe could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for … ▶361Hope
Gary PaulsenThis is going to be murder, Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. Pure murder. I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. … ▶331Reading
Gary PaulsenShe was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you … ▶366ReadingThoughtTime
Gary PaulsenI tried to contain myself... but I escaped!333Love
Gary PaulsenAnd the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2006). Hatchet, p.153, Simon and Schuster303HopeThought
Gary PaulsenA book is a friend. You can never have too many. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2003). Shelf Life: Stories by the Book, p.167, Simon and Schuster359LifeReading
Gary PaulsenThat's all it took to solve problems - just sense. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2009). Hatchet, p.155, Simon and Schuster348Death
Gary PaulsenBooks make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2009). Notes from the Dog, p.75, Wendy Lamb Books359Reading
Gary PaulsenDo what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2001). Brian's Winter, p.27, Delacorte Bo… ▶294Reading
Gary PaulsenIf books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The boo… ▶262Reading
Gary PaulsenI read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.241Reading
Gary PaulsenI owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.296Reading
Gary PaulsenThings seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. ✨ Gary Paulsen (2009). Hatchet, p.33, Simon and Schuster252Truth
Gary PaulsenStories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it285Time
Gary PaulsenHe 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 (2009). Hatchet, p… ▶265Thought
Gary PaulsenPatience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking. ✨ Ga… ▶2910LifeThought
Gary PaulsenThis beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath… ▶212LifeReadingTime
Gary PaulsenI spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watchi… ▶289DeathLifeReading
Gary PaulsenThe person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.196Reading
Gary PaulsenWe don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part … ▶218HumanityReadingSadness
Gary PaulsenWhen he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had ac… ▶153Humor
Gary PaulsenHe did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of su… ▶1710ReflectionSadnessThought
Gary PaulsenWords are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the char… ▶138HumorLifeLove
Gary PaulsenInitially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't… ▶1410HumanityReading
