Jerry Spinelli Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

  Jerry Spinelli

  Everyday, Parades

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• In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

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  Cat, Dark, Opposites

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Race, Uncomfortable, Humans

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

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• I became a children's author by accident.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children, Accidents

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• You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me." I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after." She laughed, and the desert sang.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sight, Giving, Desert

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Music, Summer, Order

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

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  Book, Reading, Surprise

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• Events become feelings, feelings become events

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  Feelings, Events

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

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  Realizing

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• In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Age, Spurs

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• When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

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  Easy, Milkweed, Letting Things Go

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

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  Song, Heart, Flying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

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  Long, Miracle, Lasts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.33, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

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  Girl, Memories, Mean

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• Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

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  Love Is, Feelings, Rooms

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

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  Life, Rain, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

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  Heart, Eye, Magic

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Stars, Wall, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Names, Stargirl, Shirts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

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  Night, House, Finding Yourself

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• 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

  Reading, Hero, Writing

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• When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, People, Soul

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