Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs is the author of nineteen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Hobbs credits his sense of audience to his fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado. When he turned to writing, he set his stories mostly in wild places he knew from firsthand experience. Hobbs has said he wants to “take young people into the outdoors and engage their sense of wonder.” Bearstone, his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 August 1947
CountryUnited States of America
He doesn't run on Saturday. He might run in the AON Chase or he might go straight for the Gold Cup, I don't know yet.
It is profoundly disappointing to reach the stage of saying poor countries might be better off not signing this year.
Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.
So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.
Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.
One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.
The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
It's one thing to play physical, it's another to grab a guy's jersey.
In another 100 yards he would have been in front. In fact, in another 50 yards.
Like every business in America, Wal-Mart is dealing with the soaring cost of health care.
It has opened more avenues to the basket for dribble penetration. We have been more efficient in our transition offense.
I'm not so sure mentally we were prepared at the beginning. And that will be addressed.