Chris Crutcher Quotes

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• You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
• I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into…
• We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that…
• There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
• I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
• It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
• My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
• You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of…
• Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go…
• Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his…
• I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or…
• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into…
• I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and…
• Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because…
• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time.…
• So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,”…
• ...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
• I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my…
• Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

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