Quotes by Chris Crutcher

About Chris Crutcher:

Chris Crutcher is 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.
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'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.

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...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 ...

Chris Crutcher

Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them. (Walker, in STOTAN!)

Chris Crutcher

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a ...

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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...

Chris Crutcher

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

Chris Crutcher

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

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

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

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My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

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It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.

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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameChris Crutcher
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornJuly 17, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Family Therapist
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award