Quotes by Sharon Draper - Page 1

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
Sharon Draper /
Grace
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I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.
Sharon Draper /
Picky
Me Day People
All Day
Be Nice
Nicer
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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.
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Reading
Teaching
Develop
Shall
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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 /
Blessing
Buckets
Fluid
Look Me Process
Waves
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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.
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Happiness
Happy
Events
Giggle
Joy
Little Things
Moments
Perfect
Sunset
Little
Things
Make
First
Grand
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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.
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Frank
Meaningful
Teens
Teachers
Discussions
Platform
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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.
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Editors
Grateful
Guidance
Publishers
Good Business Believe
Better Writer
Business Good Believe
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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.
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Good Book
Ought
Valuable
Responses
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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.
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One Book
Trilogy
Young Adults
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I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
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Conflict
Pertinent
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I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.
Sharon Draper /
Dutch
November
Pregnant
Teens
Blues
Double
Jump
Regardless
Scoring
Situations
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