Jerry Spinelli quotes - page 3

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions. (Jerry Spinelli)

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

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And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

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I became a children's author by accident.

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

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In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

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Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

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The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

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Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing. (Jerry Spinelli)

Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

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Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched.

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No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure-no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Jerry Spinelli

They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better-it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

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You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

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When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

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As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

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I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.

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Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. (Jerry Spinelli)

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Jerry Spinelli

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

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He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

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

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