Jerry Spinelli quotes

Jerry Spinelli is an American author known for his children's and young adult novels. Many of his books, such as "Maniac Magee" and "Stargirl," have won prestigious literary awards. He is celebrated for capturing the challenges and joys of growing up. Here are 77 of his quotes:

Peer pressure is just that: pressure. (Jerry Spinelli)
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down. View quote
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer. View quote
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Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds. View quote
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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 your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way. View quote
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if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people. View quote
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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. View quote
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Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that-because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you. View quote
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Why fit in when you're born to stand out? View quote
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A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor. View quote
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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled. (Jerry Spinelli)
We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. View quote
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing. View quote
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Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement. View quote
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. View quote
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. View quote
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Home is everything you can walk to. View quote
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame. View quote
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It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us. View quote
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She laughed, and the desert sang. View quote
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She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing. (Jerry Spinelli)
I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it. View quote
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Friendship isn't always sunnyside up. View quote
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Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there. View quote
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It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same. View quote
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Jerry Spinelli

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Occupation: American Author
Born: February 1, 1950
Quotes count: 77
Wikipedia: Jerry Spinelli

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