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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.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 91
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Youth is a mortal wound.
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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
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This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.
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The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.
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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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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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As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.
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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.
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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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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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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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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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