Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1961
CountryUnited States of America
author dealt entire life teenage
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
change country draft families rather soldiers treated veterans
I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
age believe child finally men watching
I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene.
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
bones chord hear organ played vibrating
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
life
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.
authors maybe might send variation
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
head touch
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
beef created fiction great hard life
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
self-esteem inspiration pounds
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
writing emotion
Write about the emotions you fear the most.
cry
I cry to let everything out
speak knows
You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.