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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: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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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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Youth is a mortal wound.
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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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I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
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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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He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
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...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
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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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