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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

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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I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.
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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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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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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. . . 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 cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
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I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.
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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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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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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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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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