Alan Gratz famous quotes

03-24-2025

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.
-- Alan Gratz

#Kids #Thinking #Giving
Waiting is a huge part of being a refugee. You're waiting at borders to get across. You're waiting for transportation. The waiting that people do in Turkey to get aboard one of these boats is incredible. And then when they finally do get aboard, it's the last place they want to be. It's harrowing. That is the horrible irony of a refugee's life. You wait and wait for the next step, and when you get to the next step, it's awful. You don't want to be doing it. But you have to. You have to keep moving forward.
-- Alan Gratz

#Moving Forward #People #Waiting
Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine
-- Alan Gratz

#Sports #Baseball #Daughter
People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything about the story itself. I'm going to tell kids the way things really were. What I don't do - and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids - is that I don't revel in the gory details. I allow readers to fill in the details as necessary. But I donâ€™t force kids to have to digest something theyâ€™re not mature enough or ready for yet. If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.
-- Alan Gratz

#Book #Writing #Kids
I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the language is different, where I don't have any money. The thought of starting over like that in the way that many refugee families have to start all over again - that's an incredible thing to think about. One of the things I tell about Refugee is that unless you're Native American or a descendant of slaves, your family immigrated to this country - whether they came over on the Mayflower or whether they came over on a raft last year.
-- Alan Gratz

#Country #Native American #Thinking

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
He isnâ€™t like us Low. You know that right.â€ I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didnâ€™t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. â€œIâ€™m not stupid Cage.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Alan Gratz famous quotes

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