Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as i…

- Jack Gantos

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important becau…

- Jack Gantos

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some question…

- Jack Gantos

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a co…

- Jack Gantos

Because each book has its own special perfume.

- Jack Gantos

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in t…

- Jack Gantos

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

- Jack Gantos

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions durin…

- Jack Gantos

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of …

- Jack Gantos