Andrea Hirata Quotes

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

The wonderful John Avildsen was a hero and father figure who was really present in my life even though we didn't have day-to-day or year-to-year.

Success can be a legacy.

My main contribution has been that I have educated and entertained people at the same time.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.