Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

- Gary Paulsen

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 pat…

- Gary Paulsen

It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am …

- Gary Paulsen

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 t…

- Gary Paulsen

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

- Gary Paulsen

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you c…

- Gary Paulsen

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all…

- Gary Paulsen

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

- Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

- Gary Paulsen