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• I was visiting a school in Fargo, North Dakota. We were having a Q-and-A session when a kid gets up, and I point to him, and he says, ‘Do you think being a kid helped you to become a writer?’ I don’t think I have ever been asked a better question.

• It’s a kid’s job to be a kid. Lightning-bug battler, cedar-chest smeller, puppy holder, railroad-car counter, tin-can stomper, dandelion blower, snowballs mover, paper-bag popper, wishbone puller, mixing-bowl licker. Such is the kid’s résumé—the original multitasker.

• My heart still remembers the cream-and-green, whitewall-tire Roadmaster bicycle in the kitchen one Christmas morning—love leaning on a kickstand.

• A child’s bedroom is as much a window to the universe as a scientist’s lab or a philosopher’s study.

• The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

• She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

• I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.

• Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

 

Jerry Spinelli Bibliography

Movie Adaptations

2009 - Stargirl
2003 - Maniac Magee

Books

1982 - Space Station Seventh Grade
2003 - Milkweed
1998 - Knots in My Yo-Yo String
1996 - Crash
1997 - Wringer
1991 - Maniac Magee
1991 - There's a Girl in My Hammerlock

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