Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers. — Gary Paulsen

But I’m your brother.’ Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. ‘You,’ she announced, ‘are a turd in the punch bowl of life. — Gary Paulsen

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life–if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me. — Gary Paulsen

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life–in war or whatever–and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I’m OK. You can more or less live on your own merit. — Gary Paulsen

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated–it’s all bad. — Gary Paulsen

Most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. — Gary Paulsen

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car–actually, more than any other place on Earth. — Gary Paulsen

I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I’ve been through. And I’m still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire. — Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself… but I escaped! — Gary Paulsen

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language. — Gary Paulsen

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven’t got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come. — Gary Paulsen

Discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He — Gary Paulsen

I was raised on farms by people who didn’t have Wal–Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc. — Gary Paulsen

Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they’ve always been is better. — Gary Paulsen

Moose was a moose. There — Gary Paulsen

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination––except that it was all reality. — Gary Paulsen

You want to stay hungry…to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don’t learn. — Gary Paulsen

The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. — Gary Paulsen

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You’re never normal again. — Gary Paulsen

School didn’t work for me. I hated it. — Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen–’If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards. — Gary Paulsen

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners. — Gary Paulsen

And he’s never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin. — Gary Paulsen

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen. — Gary Paulsen

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn’t work. — Gary Paulsen

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. — Gary Paulsen

The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate. — Gary Paulsen

If his mother hadn’t begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn’t be here now. He — Gary Paulsen

That’s all it took to solve problems–just sense. — Gary Paulsen