Quotes from Gary Paulsen

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

But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it--indeed, still can't--and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and part of the forest, the woods

This is the final book about Brian

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.

To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading.

He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside.

No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.

kep on trying

There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution.

In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong—going wrong. The plane didn't land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn't know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we're out here going la-de-da, I've got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries.

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.

He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The

discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He

He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. The plane gone, his family gone, all of it gone. They would not come. He was alone and there was nothing for him.

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

A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He

Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better.

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

berries he would have to eat the gut cherries again

Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It

I began to understand that they are not wrong or right—they just are. Wolves don't know they are wolves. That's a name we have put on them, something we have done. I do not know how wolves think of themselves, nor does anybody, but I did know and still know that it was wrong to think they should be the way I wanted them to be.

Misery is optional.

We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama.