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Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.[a]

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

Exactly, Liked, People, Time, World

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

Life, Live, Live Your Life, Mind, Read, Watches

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

Cat, Littles, Love, Short, Short Time

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

Bowl, Life Is Like, Meatball, Meatballs, Spaghetti

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.

Enormous, Listening, Reading, Returning, Writing

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.

Already, Say, Silence, Speech, Stupid

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?

Depend, Different, Looking, People, Saw, Saws

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

Hair, Life, Moving On, Nesting, Sad, Sadness

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.

Book, Books, Dance, Grandparent, Shaped, Way

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.

Asking, Character, Purpose, Reason

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?

Dreamed, Matter, Saws, Small, Thinking

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

Brain, Empty, Tried

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

Know, Knows, Notice, Somebody, Usefulness, Want

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

Course, Doe, Lifetime, Matter

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.

Down, Fall, Ground, Parent, Parents, Wish

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

Book, Books, Outdoors, Reader, Readers, Tell

A library is the door to many lives.

Door, Doors, Library, Lives

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.

1987, Entered, People, Reading, Received, Writing

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

Men, Soul, Needs, Body, Bread, Feed

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

Come, Rolled, Said, Sea

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