Jerry Spinelli Quotes

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

My story. My past. I don't want to forget that. I want to think about it and be reminded of it so I can be thankful and appreciative of everything.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror