"Usually it takes me about nine to 12…" — Jerry Spinelli

"Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book."

— Jerry Spinelli

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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…
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it…
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no…
Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do…
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a…
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,…
I became a children's author by accident.
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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