Kathi Appelt Quotes
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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Golf was never a religion to me.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
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Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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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.
