Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1961
CountryUnited States of America
beef created fiction great hard life
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!
life
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.
author dealt entire life teenage
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
digging-a-hole rest-of-life digging
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
games life-is striking-out
Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
life departed grandfather
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
life forever gone
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
knowing maps this-life
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.
life-sucks ifs
When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.
mistake apology looks
I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.
average giving perfect
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.
head touch
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
authors maybe might send variation
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.'