Sharon Creech Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Character, Journey

• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Reader

• 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.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Writing, Comfort

• I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, People, Titles

• In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Grandparent, Way

  "Fall 2016 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Sharon Creech". Horn Book Magazine Interview, www.hbook.com. September 19, 2016.

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