Quotes by Pete Hautman

About Pete Hautman:

Peter Murray Hautman is an American author of novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god - the town's water tower."
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You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you...

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We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

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The first step to success it's to imagine it

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...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take out the trash, clean your room, pick up that m...

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Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

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How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

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Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

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I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

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Author Bio

  • NamePete Hautman
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornSeptember 29, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter