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Louis Sachar is an American writer of children's books. He is best known for the Wayside School series and Holes.

Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2012 it was ranked number six among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.

✵ 3. April 1954  •  Other names 루이스 새커
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Works

Holes
Holes
Louis Sachar
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Small Steps
Small Steps
Louis Sachar
Holes
Holes
Louis Sachar
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Small Steps
Small Steps
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar: 24 quotes54 likes

Famous Louis Sachar Quotes

“When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Variant: Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
Source: Holes

“You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.”

Louis Sachar book Sideways Stories From Wayside School

Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Source: Sideways Stories from Wayside School

“If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

Louis Sachar Quotes about life

“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.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“You have only one life, make the most of it.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes, page 57.
Context: "You don't know that," said Mr. Pendanski. "I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it."

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”

Louis Sachar

“Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.”

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar Quotes about the trip

“In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“But I'm taking small steps
'Cause I don't know where I'm going
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way!”

Louis Sachar book Small Steps

Source: Small Steps

“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.”

Louis Sachar

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

Louis Sachar Quotes

“You make the decision: Whom did God punish?”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”

Louis Sachar book Holes

Source: Holes

“The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.”

Louis Sachar

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”

Louis Sachar

“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.”

Louis Sachar

“I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.”

Louis Sachar

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

“You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.”

Louis Sachar book Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake

Source: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake

“The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.”

Louis Sachar

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

“Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.”

Louis Sachar

Source: Wayside School Is Falling Down

“Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?”

Louis Sachar

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

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