Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of daily reading and writing as essential habits for learning and self-expression.
Gary Paulsen's quote encourages individuals to approach reading with the ferocity and dedication of a wolf that hunts for its food. It highlights the idea that consistent practice in both reading and writing is vital for personal and creative development, urging us to make these activities a daily ritual to foster knowledge and skill.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of lifelong learning.
Words 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 characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
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.
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
Education was almost entirely a matter of luck β usually of ill-luck β in those distant days.
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.
Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
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