A library is the door to many lives.

- Sharon Creech

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

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

- Sharon Creech

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 sh…

- Sharon Creech

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

- Sharon Creech

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

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

- Sharon Creech

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

- Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

- Sharon Creech