Sharon Creech Quotes

United States, Writer
July 29, 1945

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.[

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

Sharon Creech
- Know
- Wants
- Notice
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Sharon Creech
- Love
- Head
- Go Away

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

Sharon Creech
- Life
- Spaghetti
- Meatballs
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
- Flying
- Head
- Sadness
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sharon Creech
- Life
- Read
- Listen
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.

Sharon Creech
- Book
- Journey
- Changed
When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

Sharon Creech
- Write
- Read
- Good Stories

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

Sharon Creech
- Person
- Bird
- Cage
A library is the door to many lives.

Sharon Creech
- Door
- Library
- Lives