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

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Anything Be Careful Book Careful Date Too Use You

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If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Friday Friday Night Friday Night Lights Just Lights Like Night Seen Town You

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Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

~Chris Crutcher

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

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: About Anything Know Me Simply Subject Taboo Think Unless

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Administrators Bullying Schools Start Stop Teachers Want

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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: About Life Make Nothing Sacred Until

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If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Address Allowing Bullies Bullying Dent Empower Find Going Help Include Issue Make Predators Punished Real Simply Them Themselves Ways

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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: About Adult Any By The People Cared Complaints Designed Emotional Intent Lied Lies Malicious Many Me Most Pain Parents People Prevent Psychological Relatives Spiteful Teachers Well-Meaning Who Youth

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When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Awareness Backwards Counting Death Fear Going Had Just Left Limit Now Realized Start Stopped Terms Then Time Turned Years

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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 part of the voice I need.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Back Certain Certainly Chris Core Date Draw Feel Find Forms Go Keeps Kinds Language Like Me Need Often Part Teens Thinking Up Voice Working I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 17th, 1946

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