Chris Crutcher Quotes
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.
You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.
I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.
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.
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
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.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.
And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.
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.
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.
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
