Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech
Sharon Creechis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth29 July 1945
CitySouth Euclid, OH
CountryUnited States of America
alive minutes
It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.
nice thinking want
My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.
nice thinking people
I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.
matter doe lifetime
In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
cat littles short-time
how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?
people shapes coming-back
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.
people saws different
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?
live-your-life mind watches
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
book grandparent evolve
In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.
crazy feels
...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.
want knows usefulness
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
freedom bird cages
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
people
I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.
book character journey
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.