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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
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Chance
Write
Care
Best
Writing

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Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.
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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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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.
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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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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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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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How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?
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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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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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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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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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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
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If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.
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