Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sunflower, Her Smile, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Years, Editors, Rejection

• I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Eye, Hands, Sunflower

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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