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Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech
American Writer
Born: Jul 29, 1945
Live Me Myself People You Young
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute. Sharon Creech
Character You Own Every Find Finds Purpose Because Answer How Am Contribute Just Just Because Want Place Asking Your Reason Each Why Here
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
Me People Writing Worth Made Reading Entered Worth Reading Some Poem Poetry Written Mainly Since Around Contest Won Maybe After Realize Turned Reason Novels Ever Received
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images. Sharon Creech
Life Mind Live Read Lot Up Listen Your Fills Watch Images Millions
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills. Sharon Creech
Love Art Tools Papers Minimal Pens Fine Objects Mess Instruments Although Around Artistic Oils Skills Watercolors
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer. Sharon Creech
Me Made Think Later Possible Write Writer Well Because Encouraged Lot Very Did Loved Teachers English
When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. Sharon Creech
Good Too Good Stories Write Read Want Stories
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
Myself Writing Walk Once Out Financially Seemed Could Through Write Support Partly Read Because Audience Wanted Decided Full-Time Who Medal Now Received Two
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners! Sharon Creech
Myself Home Thought Parents Tree Once Fabricated Brother About More Bear Unconscious Picked Knocked Feet Fell Learned Making However Encounter Up Very Listeners Maybe Fiction Story Interesting Believed Early
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. Sharon Creech
Love Books Tell Outdoors Readers

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