Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
running expression names
There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.
thinking narrative might
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.
writing bored people
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
tattoo real reading
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
library opening wrenches
A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.
book broken volume
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
mean years important
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.
fiction-novels fantasy-novels science-fiction
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
music-love bostonians used
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
teenager book writing
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
findings security
We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
eye faces cry
I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.
children punishment broken
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
broken
I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.