Quotes About Louis Sachar

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake." (p. 3) It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right in with the irony that permeates the novel.

I do," said Louis. "Before I can let you play with them, I have to clean them and pump them up with the precise amount of air as specified by POOPS." "POOPS?" asked Eric Ovens. "The Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors," explained Louis. He showed them the POOPS handbook.

The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. That was what some people thought. Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before

The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. If you

At work the day before he'd installed a sprinkler system in the front yard of a house.

don't have no school no more, school no more, school no more. We don't have no school no more, my fair lady.

hand." Mrs. Jewls took the pillow

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.

What's wrong with Louis?" asked Ron. "Is he sick or something?" "Yes," said Jenny. "He's got a real bad disease. And it's spelled L-O-V-E.

There are two elevators. One is blue. One is red. When you want to go up, you take the blue elevator. When you want to go down, you take the red elevator. It's that simple. It can't go wrong! The blue one only goes up. And the red one only goes down." And so, at last, Wayside School got elevators. A blue one and a red one. They each worked perfectly one time — and never could be used again.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.