Top 30 Quotes by K. A. Applegate

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

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.

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.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

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.

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.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

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.