I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

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• Jerry Spinelli:

  Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

• Jerry Spinelli:

  Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

• Jerry Spinelli:

  Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

• Jerry Spinelli:

  I became a children's author by accident.

• Jerry Spinelli:

  I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first

• Jerry Spinelli:

  My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids'

• Jerry Spinelli:

  I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you n

• Jerry Spinelli:

  I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to t

• Jerry Spinelli:

  Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

• Jerry Spinelli:

  Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to