"Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask:……" — 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 know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old."
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Sharon Creech
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49 Quotes by Sharon Creech
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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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…
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I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it.…
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