Pete Hautman Quotes

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

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

Pete Hautman

Tags: banned books, banned books week, books, censorship, freedom to read, ideas, intellectual freedom

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...

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...

Pete Hautman

Tags: 1960s nostalgia, chores, growing up, nostalgia, summer

About Author

Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author best known for his 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."

Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I’ll tell you. They’re secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait. Wait for what? To be forgott...

Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I’ll tell you. They’re secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait. Wait for what? To be forgott...

Pete Hautman

Tags: forgotten memories, ghosts, ghosts of the past, reality, secrets

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.

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.

Pete Hautman

Tags: religion

We live in different worlds, different realities

We live in different worlds, different realities

Pete Hautman

Tags: different worlds, parallel universes, reality, world

Figuring out was is real isn’t always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

Figuring out was is real isn’t always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

Pete Hautman

Tags: reality, stories

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

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

Pete Hautman

Tags: atheism, religion

I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so...

I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so...

Pete Hautman

Tags: god, humor, religion, transubstantiation

You already have the capacity to travel through time. Simply wait for the future to arrive.

You already have the capacity to travel through time. Simply wait for the future to arrive.

Pete Hautman

How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it?I...huh?How can you understand something you don't believe in?Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechaun...

How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it?I...huh?How can you understand something you don't believe in?Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechaun...

Pete Hautman

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

Pete Hautman

I suppose if we forgot stuff we’ll never know we forgot it, because we won’t remember

I suppose if we forgot stuff we’ll never know we forgot it, because we won’t remember

Pete Hautman

Tags: memories, remember, remembering

What have we done?’ he asked, but there was no one to answer him.

What have we done?’ he asked, but there was no one to answer him.

Pete Hautman

People in groups are like sheep. Like, when your very best friend is surrounded by other people, she cares more about what everybody else thinks that she cares about you. The more people there are, th...

People in groups are like sheep. Like, when your very best friend is surrounded by other people, she cares more about what everybody else thinks that she cares about you. The more people there are, th...

Pete Hautman

Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.

Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.

Pete Hautman

He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

Pete Hautman

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...

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...

Pete Hautman

For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and...

For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and...

Pete Hautman

I don’t even know what the word strange means anymore... that’s really strange.

I don’t even know what the word strange means anymore... that’s really strange.

Pete Hautman

Miz Fitz,If my boyfriend would just once say I'm sorry, I was wrong, I think I would die and go to heaven.-Hellbound, a LassMiz Fitz sez:You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.

Miz Fitz,If my boyfriend would just once say I'm sorry, I was wrong, I think I would die and go to heaven.-Hellbound, a LassMiz Fitz sez:You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.

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