Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Sharon Draper

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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Jaspers
- Own
- Reach
- My Own
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

Yitzhak Shamir
- You
- Never
- Desperate
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

T. E. Hulme
- World
- Blue
- Born
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

Barry Hannah
- Writing
- Morning
- Envy
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Dag Hammarskjold
- World
- Safe
- Insecurity
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Barbara Amiel
- Sense
- Word
- Century