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 awesomebeefcreate share on social
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. Laurie Halse Anderson bookcoatfeedback Change image and share on social
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. Laurie Halse Anderson bookfindmessage Change image and share on social
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 fallheadlearn Change image and share on social
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 badconfusecrisis Change image and share on social
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 americabattlecriticize Change image and share on social
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. Laurie Halse Anderson acknowledgeadolescencebad share on social
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 bonecharacterchord share on social