Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

Sharon Creech

Categorized in : People Sibling Grandparent

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

courage fear people

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

moving-on sad life

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

journey character book

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

Sharon Creech

spaghetti meatballs life-is-like

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

Sharon Creech

going-away heart love

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

Sharon Creech

live-your-life mind watches

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

Sharon Creech

usefulness knows want

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

Sharon Creech

cages freedom bird

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Sharon Creech

coming-back shapes people

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Sharon Creech

moon caring men

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

Sharon Creech

comfort writing book

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

Sharon Creech

brother feet home

I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.

Sharon Creech

nails jumping would-be

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

Sharon Creech

stories want writing

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

Sharon Creech

minutes alive

A library is the door to many lives.

Sharon Creech

library doors

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

waiting love boys

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

Sharon Creech

short-time cat littles

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

Sharon Creech

crazy feels

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

saws different people