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Chris Crutcher

American

July 17, 1946

Novelist

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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

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I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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