If You Think Your Life

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.

There's Only One Thing To Say To The Censors: Shut Up.

I Can't Think Of A Subject That Is Taboo For Me, Unless It's One I Simply Don't Know Anything About.

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.

Once A Thing Is Known,it Can't Be Unknown.