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 More Quotes by Chris Crutcher More Quotes From Chris Crutcher There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up. Chris Crutcher one-thing shut-up 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 intimate development children My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere. Chris Crutcher running book firsts Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose. Chris Crutcher nothing-to-lose terminal guy 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 teachers stop start bullying 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 thought discipline done book 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 help find bullying real 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 old doing writing life 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 think high-school way school 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 words simple age way 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 view good look character If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town. Chris Crutcher lights you friday night 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 hope time science history 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 start fear time death 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 look experience life death 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 eyes me you life
