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13 quotes by Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher (born July 17, 1946) is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.
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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. I... →

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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 her... →

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It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

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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... →

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'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 senior... →

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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 live their... →

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I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

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My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

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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 back to that... →

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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... →

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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 the open where they... →

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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 of the methods... →

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