Jerry Spinelli: Doing

Jerry Spinelli is American children's writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

Jerry Spinelli: 134 quotes5 likes

“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”

As quoted in Instructor, Vol. 103 (1992), p. 201

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

“If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.”

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.”

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself