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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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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
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It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
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Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
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It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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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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...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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...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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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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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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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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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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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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