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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
Stand
Chance
Write
Care
Best
Writing

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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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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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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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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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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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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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