Top 140 Louis Sachar Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I have been to the White House,” Jeff admitted. “If you want, I’ll tell you about it.” Bradley thought a moment, then said, “Give me a dollar or I’ll spit on you.” 2.”

— Louis Sachar

52. “Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair – appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.”

— Louis Sachar

53. “You are to dig one hole each day, including Saturdays and Sundays. Each hole must be five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction. Your shovel is your measuring stick. Breakfast is served at 4:30.”

— Louis Sachar

54. “Doesn’t every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn’t you? What about Chinese children?”

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55. “Zero took the shovel. Then he swung it like a baseball bat. The metal blade smashed across Mr. Pendanski’s face. His knees crumpled beneath him. He was unconscious before he hit the ground.”

— Louis Sachar

56. “Next to it was another sign which declared that it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns, explosives, weapons, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises.”

— Louis Sachar

57. “There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.”

— Louis Sachar

58. “I once had a teacher who told me I’d be twice as smart if I was half as smart as I thought I was. I’m still trying to figure that one out.”

— Louis Sachar

59. “Girls hate it when their clothes get dirty.”

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60. “When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.”

— Louis Sachar

61. “It’s funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.”

— Louis Sachar

62. “Chalkers sat at his desk in the back of the room – last seat, last row. No one sat at the desk next to him or at the one in front of him. He was.”

— Louis Sachar

63. “The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.”

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64. “Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady.”

— Louis Sachar

65. “It’s funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.”

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66. “Dameon had hazel eyes with little black dots in the middle of each of them. The dots were called pupils.”

— Louis Sachar

67. “Myron had named him “Oddly.” Myron had named him oddly. “Is.”

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68. “Someday, the Cloud of Doom will be gone, and the world will be a much better place, even better than before the Cloud. Colors will be more colorful. Music will be more musical. Even Miss Mush’s food will taste good. The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.”

— Louis Sachar

69. “Until he knows he isn’t a monster, how is anybody else supposed to know?”

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70. “A short while later, both boys fell asleep. Behind them, the sky had turned dark, and for the first time in over a hundred years, a drop of rain fell into the empty lake.”

— Louis Sachar

71. “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest.”

— Louis Sachar

72. “We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.”

— Louis Sachar

73. “He stared at the clock. Sometimes, it seemed the hands didn’t move at all. Other times, he’d blink, and it would be half an hour later. Time didn’t always make sense at Wayside School.”

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74. “Back at the compound, they had dug in a systematic order, row upon row, allowing space for the water truck. But out here there was no system. It was as if every once in a while, in a fit of frustration, the Warden would just pick a spot at random, and say, “What the hell, dig here.” It was like trying to guess the winning numbers in a lottery.”

— Louis Sachar

75. “My heart is breaking.” “I can fix that,” said Sam. She turned to him. He took hold of both of her hands, and kissed her.”

— Louis Sachar

76. “Nothing in life is easy.”

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77. “If a donkey could talk, and if the donkey had a sore throat, and if it spoke with a French accent – that was what Mr. Gorf’s voice sounded like.”

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78. “But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you... Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That’s necessary for survival. But don’t lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won’t really have survived at all.”

— Louis Sachar

79. “You’re an idiot, Goon, you know that?” Paul Wattenburg said to him one morning. “No, as a matter of fact I didn’t,” Goon said, then laughed. He called himself Goon too. On the first day of school, his math teacher, Miss Langley, asked him his name and he said, “Goon.” “I beg your pardon,” said Miss Langley. “See, my name’s Gary Boone,” Gary.”

— Louis Sachar

80. “If Stanley and his father weren’t always hopeful, then it wouldn’t hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed.”

— Louis Sachar

81. “Some libraries have separate areas for fiction and nonfiction. Mrs. Surlaw didn’t believe in that sort of thing. After all, who was she to decide what was true and what wasn’t?”

— Louis Sachar

82. “David shared his worktable with a girl.”

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83. “When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”

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84. “Need help new member.”

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85. “He sometimes daydreamed about sitting beside her in a beautiful meadow and just counting her freckles.”

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86. “Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you’re helping Santa Claus. To me, that’s what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!”

— Louis Sachar

87. “These are the facts: The Walker boat smashed into Sam’s boat. Sam was shot and killed in the water. Katherine Barlow was rescued against her wishes. When they returned to the shore, she saw Mary Lou’s body lying on the ground. The donkey had been shot in the head. That all happened one hundred and ten years ago. Since then, not one drop of rain has fallen on Green Lake. You make the decision: Whom did God punish?”

— Louis Sachar

88. “Lucy hugged my uncle as she gushed about how wonderful it was to see him playing bridge again. Then she got all flustered and apologetic because she had used the word see. “It’s all right, Lucy,” Trapp assured her. “I’m aware you have the ability to see me, even if I can’t see you.”

— Louis Sachar

89. “You know what? I’m not going to describe anybody else as elderly. Let’s just say that if you take my age and double it, I would still have been the youngest person in the room, by a lot.”

— Louis Sachar

90. “My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn’t actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

— Louis Sachar

91. “Even the book I’m reading to my class,” said Miss Zarves. “The author makes fun of teachers!”

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92. “I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things – I don’t think of it as my novel having a new life.”

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93. “The bad stuff always rose to the top of the brain.”

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94. “SENATOR HALTINGS: Excuse me, did you just say Dr. Crumbly is a vet?”

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95. “I guess what led to me writing ‘Holes’ was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.”

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96. “Normally Trapp would just sit back and let the opponents argue, but I think he was offended by her use of the word fixed. She had just called him stupid and lucky. Worse, she blamed his supposedly lucky play on his blindness.”

— Louis Sachar

97. “Well, it’s very distracting when we have to keep saying every card out loud,” complained East. “I’m sorry my partner’s blindness makes life so difficult for you,” said Gloria.”

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98. “Part of me becomes the characters I’m writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.”

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99. “I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I’m really excited and can’t wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don’t know what’s coming next, and I really have to force it.”

— Louis Sachar

100. “You’re not completely worthless.”

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