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Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
Jerry Spinelli
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
Jerry Spinelli
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
Jerry Spinelli
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.
Jerry Spinelli
if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.
Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli
Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that-because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.
Jerry Spinelli
Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
Jerry Spinelli
A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
Jerry Spinelli
We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
Jerry Spinelli
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
Jerry Spinelli
Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.
Jerry Spinelli
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
Jerry Spinelli
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
Jerry Spinelli
Home is everything you can walk to.
Jerry Spinelli
Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
Jerry Spinelli
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.
Jerry Spinelli
She laughed, and the desert sang.
Jerry Spinelli
I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.
Jerry Spinelli
Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.
Jerry Spinelli
Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
Jerry Spinelli
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
Jerry Spinelli
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