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Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
American Writer
Born: May 17, 1939
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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
Ride Fire Sail Out Tell Run About Horses Through Poker Stuff Make Still Dogs Been Want Romantic Stories Professional Ride Horses Play
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. Gary Paulsen
Work Time Car Think Locked Adult Divorces Fresh Got Payments
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
Work Me Writing Other Collaborate Mine Writers Were Years Years Ago Friends Westerns Just Wanted Them Who
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
You State Enter Running Exaltation Never Primitive Return Dogs Normal Maximum Again Expression
I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. 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
Ride Dance Fire Sail Back Say Hunt Out Tell Teller Run About Horses Through Put Poker Stuff Like Make Around Still Dogs Been Intellectual Bambi Bloody Want Romantic Stories Skins Professional Ride Horses Play
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
Life War You Cause Big Whatever Own Situation Live Wilderness OK More More Or Less Merit Get Big Thing Your Less Away Thing Humans Damage
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing. Gary Paulsen
Experience Way Running Horn About Write Sailing Dogs Maximum Want Expression Thing
I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible! Gary Paulsen
Book Wife Animals Drunk Stupid Incredible Books Macho Favorite Would Feast Beat He Like Him His Moby Moby Dick Author Person Shooting Personally Who Fun Hemingway Believed
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does. Gary Paulsen
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. Gary Paulsen
Time You Book Made Before Books Kids Bet Write Open New Name Ideas Read Because Got New Ideas Still Impression Left Hit Intend Artistic Biggest Puberty
School didn't work for me. I hated it. Gary Paulsen
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