Quotes by Gary D. Schmidt

About Gary D. Schmidt:

Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels. Both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor was awarded to the book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor was awarded to The Wednesday Wars. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College, which is in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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This guy sounds like all the bad guys from the last ten years of murder movies all rolled into one. Like he might be the worst of those books you have there. If he was real, and really like that, then I should arrest him, right?” Matthew asked, hop...

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She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.

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He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

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He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

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Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

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Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.

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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

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It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

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Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

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You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the dif...

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There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

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There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

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A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

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Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

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I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

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Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

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You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even ...

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A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey th...

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The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

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Author Bio

  • NameGary D. Schmidt
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksLizzie Bright