Todd Strasser Quotes & Sayings

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts. — Todd Strasser

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight. — Todd Strasser

cant get there from here — Todd Strasser

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved. — Todd Strasser

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance. — Todd Strasser

Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back. — Todd Strasser

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it. — Todd Strasser

Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them. — Todd Strasser

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on. — Todd Strasser

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth. — Todd Strasser

Why do we believe one stranger and not another? — Todd Strasser

There's more to life then living, so hold on. — Todd Strasser

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad. — Todd Strasser

But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it? — Todd Strasser

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? — Todd Strasser

I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV. — Todd Strasser