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

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

From Chris Crutcher

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.

From 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.

From Chris Crutcher

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

From Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

From Chris Crutcher

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, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

From Chris Crutcher

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

From Chris Crutcher

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

From 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.

From Chris Crutcher

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