Top 37 K.A. Applegate Quotes
#1. He's not the only one who's got people to worry about," Rachel said. "I have a family. We
all do."
"Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled his sad, crooked smile. "It's true. No one gives a rat's
rear about me."
"I do," Rachel said.
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#2. Well, I'm guessing hat in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, I'm going to have a sandwich."
-Animorphs #5, The Predator page 34
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#3. I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
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#4. One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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#5. I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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#6. What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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#7. It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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#8. We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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#9. Jake assumed that he would be the one to die. Marco had seen this instantly. He wasn't arguing in favor of the awful future we'd seen. He was arguing for the life of his best friend.
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#10. Tobias said.
I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight.
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#11. When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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#12. I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show ... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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#13. I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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#14. One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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#16. I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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#17. Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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#18. I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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#19. I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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#20. I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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#21. I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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#22. When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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#23. And that we call enos ermarf."
"What?" I didn't see what he was pointing at.
"That. The way the lake curves forward into t grass, framed by derrishoul trees."
"You have a word for something like that?" I asked.
-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 63
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#24. I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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#25. That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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#26. I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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#27. I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
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#28. Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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#29. I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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#30. At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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#31. I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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#32. I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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#33. Senna reached for David's hand. I got up, dragged my chair over, and shoved in between them. This brought a faint nod from Merlin.
~Everworld, Enter the Enchanted
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#34. Well here is a good quote, Why wouldn't they help me?
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#35. Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.
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#36. As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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#37. Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.
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