Jerry Spinelli Quotes - Page 4

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• Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dog, Cat, Cowboy

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Ideas, Want

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• Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Father, Flower, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Nice, Sleep, People

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Laughter, Believe

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.107, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Names, Everyday, Doe

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• Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Who We Are, Today, Tomorrow

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Nice, Eye, Years

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Fall, Eye, Effort

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Knows, Focused

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• I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Memories, Loving You, Missing

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• I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

  Jerry Spinelli

  Realizing

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• Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Race, Uncomfortable, Humans

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Events become feelings, feelings become events

  Jerry Spinelli

  Feelings, Events

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.68, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Love, Mad, Problem

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• 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

  Writing, Touching, Care

  Instructor, Volume 103, 1992.

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• It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Years, Editors, Rejection

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• I became a children's author by accident.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children, Accidents

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Curious, Backgrounds, Turns

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• In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Mind

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• Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Book, Writing, Months

  "He's a Man of Many Words". Interview with Sandra G. Boodman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2008.

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• 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

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• 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

  War, Writing, College

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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

  Kids, Writing, Thinking

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