Quotes by Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher

…the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Educational

Heart

Men

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we’re adults and if they’re not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn’t work.

Expectations

Growing Up

School

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Adoption

Bigs

Deals

But the truth doesn’t need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Being True

Known

Needs

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.

Men

School

Senior

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.

Honest

Teens

Way

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn’t also have to do with connection.

Bangs

Believe

Connections

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.

Real

School

Teenager

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.

Book

Dark

Thinking

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Forever

Important

Thinking

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Adoption

Atoms

Bangs

Be Careful

Being True

Believe

Bigs

Block

Book

Burning

Children

Color

Connections

Dark

Deals

Development

Educational

Effort

Embers

Expectations

Firsts

Flash

Forever

Giving

Growing Up

Heart

Honest

Important

Intimate

Joy

Known

Language

Mad

Matter

Men

Moving

Needs

Numbers

Opposites

Pain

Real

Running

Scary

School

Senior

Song

Team

Teenager

Teens

Thinking

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Quotes by Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

But the truth doesn’t need to be known, or believed, to be true.

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.

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.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn’t also have to do with connection.

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.

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.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

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