Quotes from Sharon Creech

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

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

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

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

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

Am I supposed to do something important ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family.

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

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

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

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

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

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

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.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

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

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

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.

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

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

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