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Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcher
American Novelist
Born: Jul 17, 1946
Book Life Me Think Time You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it. Chris Crutcher
Bullying Administrators Schools Stop Want Teachers Start
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 childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that. Chris Crutcher
Feeling Lose Think Back Mine Small Could Had Small Town Small Towns Town Like Towns Knowing Read Revelation Real South Lee Lot Up Mockingbird Going Childhood Northwest Common Grew Story Ever Her
In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors. Chris Crutcher
Book Discipline Brilliant Thought Seniors Every Innovative Books Rural Through Detroit Had Town Talk Read Whale Michigan Done Decided Far Teach Chosen Thing
'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 year in high school. Chris Crutcher
Life Man School Important Year Young High High School He Forced Deadline Discover His Senior Senior Year Short Story Span Young Man Who
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 lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was. Chris Crutcher
Fight World School Made Live Teenager Bit Out Characters Kind Mostly Because Real Get Authority The Real World Real World Creating Who Lives Career
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 others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants. Chris Crutcher
Time Eyes Citizen Others Our Way Consistently Diminished One Time Embrace Some Having More Voice Outsider Feel Talents Schools Another Felt Heard Often Being Unfortunately Means Many Treated Second-Class
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 negatively. Chris Crutcher
Words Other Negatively Teens Positively Way Visible Makes Am Represents In Other Words Anything Them Honest
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about. Chris Crutcher
Me Think Unless Taboo About Simply Know Subject Anything
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old. Chris Crutcher
Life Writing Old About Writer Had Until Doing Years Lot Get Any Origins Early Early Life
I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character. Chris Crutcher
Good Character Bad Points Know Look Make Itself Often Want Anything Story Them Create View Helps
If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town. Chris Crutcher
You Seen Lights Town Like Friday Friday Night Friday Night Lights Just Night
When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. Chris Crutcher
Death Time Fear Backwards Awareness Had Counting Terms Limit Years Left Going Just Stopped Turned Realized Then Now Start
As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it. Chris Crutcher
Life Giving Think Universe Evidence Casual Sacred Taking Like Lot Much
If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives. Chris Crutcher
Me Youth People Relatives Parents Pain Complaints Lied Lies About Prevent Spiteful Emotional Adult Most Well-Meaning Malicious Any Intent Psychological Teachers Who Many Designed Cared By The People
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used. Chris Crutcher
Language Argument Tolerance Our Case Give Allow Since Also Schools Make Children Stories Which Them Use Used Zero Zero Tolerance
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain. Chris Crutcher
Truth Me Book People Tough Pain Air Draw Out Telling Telling The Truth About Talk Also Redemption Parts Handed Whale Stories Compassionate Thin

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