I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I know a few things about normal kids. Hell, I could write a book about them.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“(From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.) Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you? I… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?"… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“When I was in sixth grade, my mom bought me all these books about puberty and adolescence, so I would appreciate what… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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