Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
Sharon CreechI was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
Sharon CreechIt wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.
Sharon Creech