Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcheris 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
real teenager school
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.
thinking taboo subjects
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
shut-up one-thing
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
needs being-true known
But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
growing-up school expectations
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.
thinking life-sucks doe
If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.
mad scare different
If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.
views color effort
No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.
thinking shows ifs
And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.
mad language
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
brother crazy mean
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 way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced.
teachers
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.
artificial integrity sports
A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.
hard life love
It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.