Quotes by Kathi Appelt - Page 1

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.
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Cats
Hound
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Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.
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Countrymen
Fellows
Soil
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Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
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Covered
Deeper
Signals
Uninteresting
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Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
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Intensity
Paper
Rocks
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I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
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Conscious
Vermont
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Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.
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Compassion
Skinny
Speak
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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
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Abandoned
Cat
Lonelier
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Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
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Eruption
Furious
Gas
Steam
Caused
Melted
Object
Shiny
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Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.
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Blood
Laughter
Sorrow
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I always wanted to write a raccoon story. I don't know why. It's not like I want to own a raccoon or anything like that. I'm just fascinated by them.
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Fascinated
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Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
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Loss
Memories
Someone You Love
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They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
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Lightning
Strikes
Turns
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The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.
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Awe
Certain
Filled
Moments
Wonder
Almost
Help
Outdoors
Sense
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An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
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Depression
Great
Crisis
Desperate
Essentials
Great Depression
Long
Standing
Nation
Entire
Even
Monumental
Proportions
Seemed
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We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'
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Swear
Underestimate
Author
Aw
Pat
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Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.
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Gratitude
Lying
Prayer
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(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.
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Dog
Friendly
Sweet
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At any given time, all of us have an empty spot: one that is calling for companionship, for example, or for justice, love, romance, or a belly laugh. When I sit down to write, I look to see what hole needs filling at that particular moment.
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Belly
Companionship
Empty
Filling
Romance
Love Time Moment
Any Given Time
For Example
Hole
Spot
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They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.
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Crash
Farms
Following
Apartments
Crushing
Darkest
Depths
Homes
Stock
Stock Market
Thousands Of People
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Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?
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Bumper
Miracles
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I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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Abandoned
Sitting
Wonder
Totally
Interested
Creek
Edge
Leave
How Many Times
Park
Pasture
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Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
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Dialogue
Narrative
Time History Power
Received
Separates
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It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.
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Eye
Fur
Noses
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
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Franklin
New Deal
Program
Projects
Relief
Adding
American People
Roosevelt
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Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.
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Health
Community
Etc
Heavy
Highways
Infrastructure
Labor
Manual Labor
New Deal
Power Plants
Thanks
Workers
Now
Original
Buildings
Call
Centers
Clinics
Deal
Facilities
Hundreds
Programs
Manual
Park
Plants
Required
Roads
Schools
Thousands
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On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.
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Tools
Arises
Craft
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I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
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Able
Book
Bottom
Long Time
Novel
Pages
Three
Time Me Long
Time Always Me
Time Always Long
Picture
Naturally
Ended
Escaped
Page
Picture Book
Seemed
Tried
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My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.
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Evil
Funky
Poisonous
Snow
Snow White
Sweetest
Apple
Nicest
Fairest
Stepmother
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One afternoon, I was playing this new video game, 'Blood and Guts.' I was controlling Gruesome Gus versus the Crimson Menace, and I had totally waxed the guy. It was this really complex sequence of moves, and I was so excited about conquering the game that I wanted to show it to someone. Unfortunately, the only one home at the time was Mom.
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Afternoon
Blood
Crimson
Excited
Guts
Menace
Sequence
Versus
Video
Time Mom Home
Totally
Complex
Time Home Mom
Conquering
Controlling
Unfortunately
Gruesome
Video Game
Waxed
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Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.
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Ocean
Stars
Sweet
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