Top 70 Sharon Creech Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”

— Sharon Creech

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2. “In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”

— Sharon Creech

3. “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

— Sharon Creech

4. “Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”

— Sharon Creech

5. “So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.”

— Sharon Creech

6. “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.”

— Sharon Creech

7. “What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

— Sharon Creech

8. “Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.”

— Sharon Creech

9. “When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.”

— Sharon Creech

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10. “A library is the door to many lives.”

— Sharon Creech

11. “You know, maybe that’s all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.”

— Sharon Creech

12. “A person isn’t a bird. You can’t cage a person.”

— Sharon Creech

13. “Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!”

— Sharon Creech

14. “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.”

— Sharon Creech

15. “Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”

— Sharon Creech

16. “Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

— Sharon Creech

17. “I don’t want to because boys don’t write poetry. Girls do.”

— Sharon Creech

18. “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.”

— Sharon Creech

19. “Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.”

— Sharon Creech

20. “I tried. Can’t do it. Brain’s empty.”

— Sharon Creech

21. “Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can’t help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.”

— Sharon Creech

22. “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

23. “Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie.”

— Sharon Creech

24. “It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”

— Sharon Creech

25. “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.”

— Sharon Creech

26. “I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.”

— Sharon Creech

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27. “My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The.”

— Sharon Creech

28. “I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.”

— Sharon Creech

29. “On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora’s box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”

— Sharon Creech

30. “I don’t remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was ‘The Timber Toes.’ I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.”

— Sharon Creech

31. “Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?”

— Sharon Creech

32. “It can’t be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”

— Sharon Creech

33. “I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.”

— Sharon Creech

34. “And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?”

— Sharon Creech

35. “I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

— Sharon Creech

36. “Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

— Sharon Creech

37. “I was sitting in the backseat with my brother, Luke, a seven-year-old complexity. Sometimes he acted as if he were two, and sometimes twelve. He was full of questions and energy and opinions except when you wanted him to have any of those things.”

— Sharon Creech

38. “I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.”

— Sharon Creech

39. “Then I thought, boy, isn’t that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

— Sharon Creech

40. “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

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41. “She was my mother, and she was part of me.”

— Sharon Creech

42. “The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”

— Sharon Creech

43. “It is not a good idea to call yourself a sardine in a family like Leo’s, who will not let you forget it.”

— Sharon Creech

44. “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

Featured in: Reading Quotes

45. “Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.”

— Sharon Creech

46. “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

47. “I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot.”

— Sharon Creech

48. “What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?”

— Sharon Creech

49. “He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but “the best of the best.” He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, “We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!” Is he kidding?”

— Sharon Creech

50. “I cannot control who was going to come, and who was going to go, and who will stay my buddy, my pal, and who’ll find me enchanting, and oddly I feel relieved.”

— Sharon Creech