Sharon Creech Quotes

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

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.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

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.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

A library is the door to many lives.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

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.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

So much dependsupona blue carsplattered with mudspeeding down the road.

I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.