Sharon Creech

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

— Sharon Creech

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

— Sharon Creech

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

— Sharon Creech

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

— Sharon Creech

“By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of…

— Sharon Creech

“Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be.”

— Sharon Creech

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

— Sharon Creech

“I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.”

— Sharon Creech

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when…

— Sharon Creech

On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed…

— Sharon Creech

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go.…

— Sharon Creech

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I…

— Sharon Creech

“A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so…

— Sharon Creech

I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to…

— Sharon Creech

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…

— Sharon Creech

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love…

— Sharon Creech

“Sea fleas,” Frank said. “They’re everywhere, very wee, practically invisible. They love our bait. If you fell overboard and weren’t picked up…

— Sharon Creech

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

— Sharon Creech

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

— Sharon Creech

“I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy.”

— Sharon Creech

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

— Sharon Creech

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

— Sharon Creech

“Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.”

— Sharon Creech

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

— Sharon Creech

“I was full of struggles! And that made me so happy: If I was full of struggles, maybe I was interesting!”

— Sharon Creech

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

— Sharon Creech

“What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)”

— Sharon Creech

“But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and…

— Sharon Creech

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,…

— Sharon Creech

“It was as if I were carrying around all the places I'd ever lived, and nothing I was seeing was just what…

— 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…

— Sharon Creech

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow…

— Sharon Creech

I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which…

— Sharon Creech

“Am I supposed to do something important ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this…

— Sharon Creech

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and…

— Sharon Creech

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out…

— Sharon Creech

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically…

— Sharon Creech

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then…

— Sharon Creech

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want…

— Sharon Creech