Sharon Creech Quotes

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• 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…
• Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
• Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with…
• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.
• I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
• 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…
• When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
• Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted…
• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To…
• I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.
• Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they…
• Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
• Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words…
• 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.
• ...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

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