"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."

-- Chris Crutcher

#Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Years Quotes

“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.”
“a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.”

Source : Lady Caroline Lamb (1822). “Graham Hamilton”, p.6
“We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.”
“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”
“Travel light and trust in serendipity.”
“Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.”
“Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.”
“Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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