Gary Paulsen Quotes

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

A good book is an event in my life.

Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.