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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
Administrators
Bullying
Schools
Start
Stop
Teachers
Want
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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
Address
Allowing
Bullies
Bullying
Dent
Empower
Find
Going
Help
Include
Issue
Make
Predators
Punished
Real
Simply
Them
Themselves
Ways
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If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
~ Chris Crutcher
About
Anger
Angry
Desperate
Desperation
Language
People
Use
Writing
You
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If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.
~ Chris Crutcher
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Just
Lights
Like
Night
Seen
Town
You
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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
Book
Books
Brilliant
Chosen
Decided
Detroit
Discipline
Done
Every
Far
Had
Innovative
Michigan
Read
Rural
Seniors
Talk
Teach
Thing
Thought
Through
Town
Whale
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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
About
Anything
Child
Development
Intimate
Know
Me
Reporting
Seems
You
Your
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It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.
~ Chris Crutcher
Hard
I Love
Imagine
Life
Love
My Life
Writing
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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
About
Any
Doing
Early
Early Life
Get
Had
Life
Lot
Old
Origins
Until
Writer
Writing
Years
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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
Back
Been
Book
Censored
Every
First
Has-Been
Loose
Running
Since
Somewhere
Written
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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
Abuse
At Least One
Eyes
Families
Important
Important Lesson
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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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
~ Chris Crutcher
About
Life
Make
Nothing
Sacred
Until
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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
Alive
Because
Better
Book
Bring
Brings
Educators
Ever
Had
History
Methods
Particular
Reader
Reading
Right
Sometimes
Story
Than
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The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
~ Chris Crutcher
About
Approach
Available
Frustration
Kid
May
Might
Only
Parent
Time
You
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The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
~ Chris Crutcher
Adult
Appear
Away
Backs
Community
Fear
Kids
Lose
May
Stories
Take
Truths
Turn
Well
Who
You
Your
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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
About
Against
Believe
Best
Best Intentions
Character
Deadline
Determined
Even
Find
Forced
Found
Go
Grain
How
I Believe
Intentions
Me
My Own
Own
Premise
Redemption
Sometimes
Story
Time
Valuable
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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
Against
Book
Deadline
Death
Distance
Down
Experience
Get
Kids
Life
Like
Look
Perfect
Put
Real
Real Life
Rub
Story
Up
Value
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What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
~ Chris Crutcher
About
Beings
Between
Connections
Courage
Different
Different Perspective
Exploring
Hope
Human
Human Beings
Me
Nature
Perspective
Reflects
Sense
Things
Those
True
True Nature
Worth
Writing
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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
Awareness
Backwards
Counting
Death
Fear
Going
Had
Just
Left
Limit
Now
Realized
Start
Stopped
Terms
Then
Time
Turned
Years
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When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.
~ Chris Crutcher
Even
Exact
Experience
Found
Know
Match
Material
Nod
Place
Read
Same
Smile
Somebody
Though
Watching
Where
You
Your
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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
~ Chris Crutcher
Anything
Be Careful
Book
Careful
Date
Too
Use
You
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