Sharon Creech Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Reading, Writing, Listening

• I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

  Sharon Creech

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  Sharon Creech (2001). “Love That Dog”, p.1, A&C Black

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

  Sharon Creech

  Writing, Stories, Want

• 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

  Book, Writing, Comfort

• I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

  Sharon Creech

  Reading, Writing, People

• Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

  Sharon Creech

  Writing, Moon, Two

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