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Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

Sharon Creech

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Sharon Creech
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 29
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South Euclid
Ohio
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It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.
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I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.
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I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
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It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
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Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
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I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
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Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
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What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?
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Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
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Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!
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Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
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Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie
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And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?
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I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.
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So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.
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I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
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