If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

Chris Crutcher
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde

  2. We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that... - C. Joybell C.

  3. I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. - Fannie Flagg

  4. That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. - Deb Caletti

  5. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. - David Foster Wallace

More Quotes By Chris Crutcher
  1. But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

  2. Nothing exists without its opposite.

  3. So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because.” Because experience is the only teacher, ” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t...

  4. There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

  5. As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of...

Related Topics