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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.
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I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
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Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately marketable.
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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.
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the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
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We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.
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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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