Kathi Appelt

Writer

1954-07-06

Quotes by Kathi Appelt

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.

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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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