Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
eye faces cry
I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.
children punishment broken
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
broken
I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.
sorry dying apologizing
You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
dwarves house dumb
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
years play narrative
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
teenager writing teens
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
atheist house irritating
I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
historical-novels stories wells
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
writing thinking circles
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
kids tumbling-down civilization
It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.
world wonder natural
The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.
cheer thinking jumping
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.
atheist attitude may
We atheists can... argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.