Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
Jerry Spinelli
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Way
Observation
People
Seem
Share
Natural
Feelings
Equipped
Seems
Observations
Best
Tendency
Writing
Tendencies
More quotes by Jerry Spinelli
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
Jerry Spinelli
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
Jerry Spinelli
They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
Jerry Spinelli
Star people are rare.
Jerry Spinelli
And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
Jerry Spinelli
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
Jerry Spinelli
Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
Jerry Spinelli
Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
Jerry Spinelli
Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
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.
Jerry Spinelli
