This is a neat video clip of Jerry Spinelli and his wife Eileen I found on YouTube. Eileen is also an author of children's books. Jerry talks about the advantages of having someone live with you that you can "bounce" your writing off of, and who can help edit your work. He also states that Eileen is his inspiration for Stargirl and she comments about herself being "different" growing up. Jerry also mentions one of the reasons for writing the book, which is making children and adults realize that it is okay to be themselves.
BY JERRY SPINELLI
"...just be careful not to get the facts mixed up with the truth."- Maniac Magee quote
“You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl.” - Love, Stargirl
“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow
of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly,
but the pin merely went through and away she flew.” - Stargirl
"He did not want to be a wringer. This was one of the first things he had learned about himself. He could not have said exactly when he learned it, but it was very early. And more than early, it was deep inside. In the stomach like hunger." - Wringer
“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow
of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly,
but the pin merely went through and away she flew.” - Stargirl
"He did not want to be a wringer. This was one of the first things he had learned about himself. He could not have said exactly when he learned it, but it was very early. And more than early, it was deep inside. In the stomach like hunger." - Wringer
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
This is a neat video clip of Jerry Spinelli and his wife Eileen I found on YouTube. Eileen is also an author of children's books. Jerry talks about the advantages of having someone live with you that you can "bounce" your writing off of, and who can help edit your work. He also states that Eileen is his inspiration for Stargirl and she comments about herself being "different" growing up. Jerry also mentions one of the reasons for writing the book, which is making children and adults realize that it is okay to be themselves.
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