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I became a children's author by accident.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Accident
Author
Accidents
Became
Children

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I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.
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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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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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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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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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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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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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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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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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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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No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.
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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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Star people are rare.
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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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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
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The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.
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