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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
Writing
Stand
Chance
Write
Care
Best

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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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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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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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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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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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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said. What about it? Well, it's nice to get credit. The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. Is it? she said.
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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
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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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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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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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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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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.
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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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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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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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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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