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Sharon Creech 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1945
Sharon Creech photo

Works

Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
Sharon Creech
Love That Dog
Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
Sharon Creech
Love That Dog
Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech: 21 quotes21 likes

Famous Sharon Creech Quotes

“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.”

Sharon Creech book Absolutely Normal Chaos

Source: Absolutely Normal Chaos

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

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

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

Sharon Creech book Chasing Redbird

Source: Chasing Redbird

“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

“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.”

Sharon Creech Love That Dog

Source: Love That Dog

Sharon Creech Quotes

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

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

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

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

“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.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

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

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

“You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

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

Sharon Creech book Heartbeat

Source: Heartbeat

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

Sharon Creech Love That Dog

Source: Love That Dog

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

Sharon Creech book The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer

“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?”

Sharon Creech book Chasing Redbird

Source: Chasing Redbird

“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?”

Sharon Creech book Heartbeat

Source: Heartbeat

“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

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

Sharon Creech book Bloomability

Source: Bloomability

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

Sharon Creech

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