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Jerry Spinelli quotes - page 3
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli
And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.
Jerry Spinelli
I became a children's author by accident.
Jerry Spinelli
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
Jerry Spinelli
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
Jerry Spinelli
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
Jerry Spinelli
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
Jerry Spinelli
Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
Jerry Spinelli
The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.
Jerry Spinelli
Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
Jerry Spinelli
Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.
Jerry Spinelli
I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched.
Jerry Spinelli
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure-no one but you can be the hero of your story.
Jerry Spinelli
They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better-it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?
Jerry Spinelli
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
Jerry Spinelli
When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.
Jerry Spinelli
As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.
Jerry Spinelli
I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.
Jerry Spinelli
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
Jerry Spinelli
The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
Jerry Spinelli
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
Jerry Spinelli
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.
Jerry Spinelli
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