Yalsa Quotes & Sayings

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever. — Charles Spurgeon

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone. — Leonard Sweet

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us ... — Kate Chisman

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus. — Lei Jun

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head. — Allegra Goodman

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. — Michael Moore

An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust. — Lauren Oliver

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions. — Voltaire

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. — Howard Pyle

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. — Louis Sachar

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit. — Johnny Unitas

Silence can symbolize many things; fear, anger, sadness, or shame. But one thing that silence cannot symbolize is happiness because silence is dark, silence is quiet, silence is everything happiness should not acquire. — Keysi