Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
Jerry Spinelli
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Reach
Losing
Lose
Loses
Gone
Persons
Person
Favorite
Without
Anymore
More quotes by Jerry Spinelli
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
Jerry Spinelli
Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?
Jerry Spinelli
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
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
Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
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.
Jerry Spinelli
When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
Jerry Spinelli
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
Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
Jerry Spinelli
Live today like there's no tomorrow!
Jerry Spinelli
I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
Jerry Spinelli
You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
Jerry Spinelli
Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
Jerry Spinelli
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
Jerry Spinelli
Events become feelings, feelings become events
Jerry Spinelli
I became a children's author by accident.
Jerry Spinelli
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
Jerry Spinelli
I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.
Jerry Spinelli
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
Jerry Spinelli
If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.
Jerry Spinelli