"Happy". I had not heard that word since……" — Jerry Spinelli
"Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said."
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149 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
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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…
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no…
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Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
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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…
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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…
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,…
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I became a children's author by accident.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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