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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. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Back Childhood Common Could Ever Feeling Going Grew Had Her Knowing Lee Like Lose Lot Mine Mockingbird Northwest Read Real Revelation Small Small Town Small Towns South Story Think Town Towns Up

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Deadline Discover Forced He High High School His Important Life Man School Senior Senior Year Short Span Story Who Year Young Young Man

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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

Topics: Authority Because Bit Career Characters Creating Fight Get Kind Live Lives Made Mostly Out Real Real World School Teenager The Real World Who World

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The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: About Against Believe Best Character Deadline Determined Even Find Forced Found Go Grain How Intentions Me My Own Own Premise Redemption Sometimes Story Time Valuable I Believe

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

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Another Being Citizen Consistently Diminished Embrace Eyes Feel Felt Having Heard Many Means More Often One Time Others Our Outsider Schools Second-Class Some Talents Time Treated Unfortunately Voice Way

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Ability About Adult Alike Books Bring Considered Dark Great Like Mine Number Open Other Subjects Talented Talked Teens Think Value Where Writers I Think

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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

Topics: Am Anything Honest In Other Words Makes Negatively Other Positively Represents Teens Them Visible Way Words I Am

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Back Been Book Censored Every First Loose Running Since Somewhere Written

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Alive Because Better Book Bring Brings Educators Ever Had History Methods Particular Reader Reading Right Sometimes Story Than Use

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: About Anything Child Development Intimate Know Me Reporting Seems You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 17th, 1946

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