American - Writer | October 23, 1961 -
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
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Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.
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We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
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I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
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I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
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Kids are mostly very resilient.
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Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
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I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
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