Writers Write Is All About Writing
Writers Write Is All About Writing
Laurie Halse Anderson

Literary Birthday – 23 October – Laurie Halse Anderson

Happy Birthday, Laurie Halse Anderson, born on 23 October 1961.

Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

  1. Write about the emotions you fear the most.
  2. I generally think about a project a lot and go out and ask a bunch of questions, and then I think about it a lot more. And when I can finally hear the voice of the character, that’s when I start to write.
  3. Don’t let anyone tell you that you cannot do this.
  4. Be nice to your parents, because if you want to be a published author, you’ll probably wind up living with them after college. For a decade.
  5. Real writers revise their work over and over and over.
  6. Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
  7. Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don’t exist than to talk about them.
  8. If you write a story that feels true, with well-developed characters and natural conflicts and growth, you can’t help but have a story with overarching themes that reflect the human condition.
  9. I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
  10. The constant rejection was a bit daunting, but I don’t write only to be published. I write because it helps me make sense of the world. Even if I’d never been published, I’d still be scribbling my stories.

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer of children’s, young adult, and new adult novels. She is well known for writing Wintergirls, Speak, Fever 1793, and Chains. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. For the novel Speak, Anderson won the Golden Kite Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature and in 2023 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her latest book, Rebellion 1776 was released in 2025. Visit her website and follow her on Instagram.

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by Amanda Patterson
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Posted on: 23rd October 2013
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