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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Artistic Because Before Bet Biggest Book Books Got Hit Ideas Impression Intend Kids Left Made Name New New Ideas Open Puberty Read Still Time Write You

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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Been Cozy Really Small Some Stand Stand Up Surprisingly Though Up Warm Yes You

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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Able About After Again Anything Back Dog Dogs Even Give Go Horizon Just Know Lust Never Out Run Same See Still Team Though Wonderful Would You

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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Collaborate Friends Just Me Mine Other Them Wanted Were Westerns Who Work Writers Writing Years Years Ago

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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Available Border Colorado Dogs Feet Form Go Got Horse Humans Ice Love Me Offer Once Only Out Pinned Pulled Rest Saved Saw She Team Think Through Unconditional Unconditional Love Water I Think

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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Below Better Came Clothing Copy Degrees Did Down Good Look Made My Own Own Patterns Still Stuff Than Works Zero

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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Computers Disastrous Done Just Language Think I Think

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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Animals Author Beat Believed Book Books Drunk Favorite Feast Fun He Hemingway Him His Incredible Like Macho Moby Person Personally Shooting Stupid Who Wife Would

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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: About Childhood Drunks Fact Folks Had In Fact Really Rough Than Thought Were

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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: Again Dogs Enter Exaltation Expression Maximum Never Normal Primitive Return Running State You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 17th, 1939

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