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My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

~Chris Crutcher

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I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Academically Attention Attention Span College Did Get Had High High School Little Lot Much Out Pretty Really Same School Short Span Student Think Way I Think

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Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.

~Chris Crutcher

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I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

~Chris Crutcher

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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.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Basically Basics Because By The Time College Damage Goes He History Hope Just Kid Knows Learned Least Lot Math Much Over Science Some Start Taking Teaching Time Undo Wrong You

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The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.

~Chris Crutcher

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In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

~Chris Crutcher

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My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

~Chris Crutcher

Topics: Abuse At Least One Eyes Families Important Judge Judging Least Lesson Life Me My Own Neglect Never Own Person See Taught Then Therapist Through Until Working Years You

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As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

~Chris Crutcher

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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

~Chris Crutcher

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 17th, 1946

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