Jerry Spinelli

"She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day."

"It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we …"

"The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."