Sharon Creech quotes

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore! (Sharon Creech)
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images. View quote
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. View quote
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Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is. View quote
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Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing. View quote
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It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago. View quote
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when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive. View quote
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Don't be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing-and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more. View quote
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On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right. View quote
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Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them, you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking? View quote
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The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. (Sharon Creech)
Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea. View quote
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A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. View quote
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In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? View quote
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. View quote
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Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out. View quote
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You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair. View quote
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Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul. View quote
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One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to. View quote
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Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old. View quote
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I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. (Sharon Creech)
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners! View quote
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I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. View quote
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As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. View quote
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Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute. View quote
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