Sharon Creech Quotes

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.

I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'

Palestinian people are in love with life.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.