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
artificial integrity sports
A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.
kids throughout worked
With all the kids that I have worked with throughout the years, I couldn't find one that wasn't like me in a way.
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When a teacher looks out over his or her classroom, he/she is looking at one in three girls who have been sexually mistreated, one in five boys.
draw handed parts people stories telling thin tough truth
'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.
antsy boards schools whether
I get used to it, ... One of the things I find is that schools and school boards get antsy about whether to have me there.
courage exploring hope human nature perspective true worth
What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
attention high school span
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
address allowing bullies dent include predators simply ways
If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.
acting danger everybody happens start stuff sudden thinks
What happens is everybody thinks the danger is you're going to read this stuff and all of a sudden you'll start acting that way,
left rules since
Since I didn't read a lot, it left me without rules when I was writing.
color daddy eat love toys until
She thought if she could get the color off, her daddy would love her, ... She didn't get to eat with the other kids. She couldn't play with the toys until they were broken.
zero children school
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.
running book firsts
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
book use be-careful
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.