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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Best
Writing
Stand
Chance
Write
Care

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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.
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Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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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
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We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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.
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.
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