We’re good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball – at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It’s great for movie sales, but they’ve created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it’s going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever! Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you’re smart, you learn not to touch them. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you’re not alone and that’s what’s so comforting about books. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
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. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
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. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
We’ve fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they’re surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, ‘Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.’ Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it’s my next book. Laurie Halse Anderson Read Quote
