“I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We ...” — Laurie Halse Anderson Quote

“I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.”

“The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.”

“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!”

“I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.”

“I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.”

“Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.”