Louis Sachar Quotes

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.