Sharon Draper Quotes

I want to tell amazing stories that inspire, that bring you out of your reality, give you dreams to be bigger and better than yourself. Hopefully, I can be that conduit.

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

All men of action are dreamers.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

My dad used to call me 'the dreamer.' He was right.

I was a dreamer, and I still am one.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.