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
want limits shy
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.
sleep want wake-up
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.
listening want world
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
eating-disorder want dies
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
answers want doe
What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.
want be-kind bugs
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
book pages wanted
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
mean adults want
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.
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.
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!
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.'