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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Hard
#Me
#Nobody
#Rejection
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Everybody
#Mind
#Writing
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Curious
#Out
#Someone
#Who
I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Age
#Me
#Old
#Reading
#Women
I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Beginning
#Find
#Living
#Myself
#Wonder
Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Live
#Myself
#She
#Who
When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Living Room
#Living
#People
#Room
Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Between
#Books
#Give
#Myself
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Battle
#College
#Famous
#War
#Writing
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Care
#Chance
#Doing
#Stand
Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
- Jerry Spinelli
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#Care
#Do Your Best
#Page
#Yourself
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Just
#Peer Pressure
#Peer
#Pressure
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Baseball
#First
#Growing Up
#New
#Up
Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Back
#Day
#Road
#Travel
#Valentine's Day
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
- Jerry Spinelli
#Hill
#Ideas
#Imagination
#Life
#Memories
#Monkey
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