In an interview with Scholastic Sachar talks about his book Holes. Sachar says that his inspiration for becoming an author is from reading and his favorite authors became his heroes. The way Sachar starts his books is by creating a character and lets it develop, but for Holes he stared with Camp Green Lake. The idea for the camp came from the hot long summers of Texas. Authors are not perfect writers, because as an author he has to do many drafts and even after he sends the copy to the publisher he still works with the editor to fix the copy some more. Even though his books do not have any thing of him he writes about what others were doing at the same time, like when he was a child how kids were interested in cigarettes. His advice he gives for children is to read and find out what interest them. Sachar was not always a writer he only liked reading and in college he was studying economics. He became interested in children when an elementary school kid was passing out leaflets for teachers’ aide, he took the job so he can get the credits he was missing for dropping classes in college.


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