Gary Paulsen Quotes

Gary James Paulsen is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books and has written more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

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✵ 17. May 1939

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Hatchet

Hatchet

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The Winter Room

The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen

Hatchet

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

The Winter Room

The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen

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Famous Gary Paulsen Quotes

“Patience, 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.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”

“If 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 book needs you.”

Gary Paulsen book The Winter Room

Source: The Winter Room

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

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”

Source: Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“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 book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Gary Paulsen Quotes

“I tried to contain myself… but I escaped!”

“I 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; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.”

Source: Caught by the Sea

“Read like a wolf eats.”

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”

“… this 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…”

Source: Caught by the Sea

“That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“When 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 accomplished nothing.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“He 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 him now… He was alone and there was nothing for him.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

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