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If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

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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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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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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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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. . . 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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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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