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Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar
American Author
Born: Mar 20, 1954
Book Me Think Time Writing Young
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much. Louis Sachar
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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. Louis Sachar
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Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow. Louis Sachar
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It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen. Louis Sachar
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I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book. Louis Sachar
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I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book. Louis Sachar
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I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me. Louis Sachar
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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
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I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year. Louis Sachar
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I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults. Louis Sachar
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With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar
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'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life. Louis Sachar
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