Sharon Creech Quotes

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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.

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  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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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.

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  Life, Moving On, Sad

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• I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

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  Book, Character, Journey

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• Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

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  Life Is Like, Spaghetti, Meatballs

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• Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

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  Live Your Life, Mind, Watches

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• When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

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  Writing, Stories, Want

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• A library is the door to many lives.

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  Doors, Library

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• A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

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  Freedom, Bird, Cages

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• Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

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  Love, Boys, Waiting

  Sharon Creech (2004). “Absolutely normal chaos”

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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.

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  Love, Heart, Going Away

  Sharon Creech (2003). “Walk Two Moons”, Harper Collins

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• how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

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  Cat, Littles, Short Time

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• You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

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  Want, Knows, Usefulness

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• 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!

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  Brother, Home, Feet

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• ...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

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  Crazy, Feels

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Heartbeat”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

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  Thinking, Matter, Saws

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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.

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  People, Shapes, Coming Back

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• I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

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  Book, Writing, Comfort

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• I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.

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  Jumping, Nails, Would Be

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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?

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  People, Different, Saws

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• My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

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  Nice, Thinking, Want

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Granny Torrelli Makes Soup”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

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  Fear, War, People

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• Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

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  Men, Soul, Body

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• I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

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  Fall, Parent, Wish

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• Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

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  Character, Purpose, Asking

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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.

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  Reading, Writing, People

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