Whale Talk Chris Crutcher Quotes

#1. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Chris Crutcher

#2. In spite of the fact that I hurt more than when I was in labor, I was pretty sure the doctor was just going to tell me I needed to fart really bad.

Jenny Lawson

#3. The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#4. Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Todd Solondz

#6. The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Danny Elfman

#7. It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

Camille Pissarro

#8. I am not an easel-kisser.

Martin Kippenberger

#9. I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Chris Crutcher

#10. In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

Chris Crutcher

#11. Your habits determine your outcomes.

Jack Canfield