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Sharon Draper Quotes
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Sharon Draper
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 21
,
1948
Book
Me
People
Try
Writing
You
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Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Sharon Draper
Happiness
Beautiful
Sunset
Happy
Joy
Little Things
Events
First
Giggle
Perfect
Make
Grand
Little
Moments
Things
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
Sharon Draper
Dreams
Me
Writing
Dreamers
Reading
Dream
Dreamer
Shall
Through
Develop
Come
Learned
Always
Create
Teaching
I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
Sharon Draper
Love
Grace
Dance
Style
Easily
Write
Move
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Sharon Draper
Me
Blessing
Writing
Words
Wait
Fluid
Sit
Down
Waves
Easily
Buckets
Come
Look
Because
Very
Process
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
Sharon Draper
Good
Book
Valuable
Reading
Whatever
Ought
Those
Out
Responses
Take
Read
None
Lots
Very
Personal
Different
Them
Good Book
Away
Bring
I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.
Sharon Draper
Good
You
Business
Grateful
Guidance
Better
Believe
Writer
Had
Support
Better Writer
Make
Because
Without
Editors
Lot
Than
Your
Now
Publishers
Started
With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just write one book, then another, and then another, because the young adults who wrote me told me that they wanted to read more.
Sharon Draper
Me
Book
Writing
Young
One Book
High
Would
Trilogy
More
Write
Adult
Wrote
Read
Another
Sure
Because
Just
Young Adults
Wanted
Then
Who
I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platform for parents and teachers to have frank, meaningful discussions with those young people.
Sharon Draper
People
Speak
Try
Parents
Young
Difficult
Teens
Frank
Those
About
Give
Voice
Issues
Up
Discussions
Afraid
Young People
Might
Meaningful
Teachers
Who
Platform
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